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What Is Climate-Smart Agriculture?
What Is Climate-Smart Agriculture?
Climate change is turning the lives of farmers upside down. Unpredictable weather patterns, shorter growing seasons, droughts, extreme…
Rainforest Alliance
Jan 21, 2020
Our Mission to Protect the World’s Forests
Our Mission to Protect the World’s Forests
Forests are life. Source of air, water, food, shelter, medicine: they are critical to the survival of every living thing on Earth. From…
Rainforest Alliance
Dec 19, 2019
Advancing the Human Rights of Rural People
Advancing the Human Rights of Rural People
The sad truth about some of world’s most commonly traded goods-coffee, chocolate, tea, bananas, palm oil, and timber products-is that…
Rainforest Alliance
Jan 22, 2020
The Rainforest Alliance’s Work in Peru
The Rainforest Alliance’s Work in Peru
Peru is a country of abundance. More than half its considerable land mass is covered in megadiverse Amazon rainforest, where scores of…
Rainforest Alliance
Feb 13, 2020
Natural Climate Solutions
Natural Climate Solutions
Scientists on the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have issued a clear call to the world: to avoid a global climate…
Rainforest Alliance
Nov 15, 2019
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The Rainforest Alliance’s Work in Mexico
The Rainforest Alliance’s Work in Mexico
Local and Indigenous communities hold rights to nearly 75 percent of Mexico’s forests, yet more than half of the 12 million people who…
Rainforest Alliance
Feb 24, 2020
Our Work to Improve Rural Livelihoods
Our Work to Improve Rural Livelihoods
More than 1.4 billion people around the world live in extreme poverty-the majority of them in rural areas. Improving sustainable…
Rainforest Alliance
Nov 26, 2019
An Update on Our Crisis Response to the Amazon Fires
An Update on Our Crisis Response to the Amazon Fires
Editor’s Note: The Amazon is still burning. As the fires rage on, an inspiring global mobilization has emerged in defense of one of…
Rainforest Alliance
Nov 6, 2019
Making Indonesia’s Cocoa Policy A Reality Through Advocacy
Making Indonesia’s Cocoa Policy A Reality Through Advocacy
Due to a toxic combination of corruption and bankruptcy, the Kerta Samaya Samaniya (KSS) cocoa cooperative in Jembrana, Bali, went into…
Rainforest Alliance
Nov 4, 2019
The World Ablaze: Why Our Forests Are Burning
The World Ablaze: Why Our Forests Are Burning
From the Amazon to the Arctic, forests around the world are burning. Catastrophic manmade fires are raging across the Brazilian Amazon…
Rainforest Alliance
Oct 21, 2019
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