Introduction to Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable Agriculture Standard 2020

The webinar will provide insights on how the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard can help companies achieve their sustainability goals and address the rapidly increasing demands from consumers and destination countries for more transparency in cocoa supply chain.

In this 2.5 hours, you will hear more about the certification program, how it works, and how it can help your company to achieve sustainability goals and create more transparent and responsible supply chain.

Whether it’s in a rich chocolate bar or a warm winter beverage, cocoa is everywhere. Yet, the industry faces significant social, economic, and environmental sustainability challenges. Climate change, deforestation, low income, lack of interest from young generation to become farmer, poor working conditions, and child labor are among the issues affecting cocoa farmers and nature around the world.

The Rainforest Alliance is working to tackle these issues and move towards a more sustainable cocoa sector by developing the new Sustainable Agriculture Standard. The merger of the Rainforest Alliance and UTZ in 2018 was a natural moment for us to combine our experience and develop a strong, forward-looking approach to certification that is fit for these challenges now facing sustainable agriculture and related supply chains.

With around two million farmers and more than 5000 companies around the world joining our certification program in cocoa, coffee, tea, banana, and other cultivate crops, we aim to:

• Contribute to lifting rural people out of poverty by improving sustainable livelihood opportunities for farmers, workers, and their families.
  
• Support farmers to grow better crops for optimum productivity using climate-smart agriculture, which also help them mitigate and adapt to climate impacts.
  
• Promote more sustainable land management practices to protect forests, biodiversity, and natural resources.
  
• Address human rights abuses like child and forced labor, low wages, poor working conditions, and gender inequality.
  

• High level introduction to Sustainability challenges in cocoa sector and the growing demands for more transparency in supply chains.
  
• Introduction to the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard 2020, including farm and supply chain requirements, and the certification process.
  

Basic, Introduction

Recommended for cocoa traders, exporters, buyers

• Understand key sustainability issues and how its impacting the cocoa industry.
  
• Understand the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard 2020, and how it can help companies achieve their sustainability goals and address increasing demands on more transparency in supply chain.
  

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