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The updated certification scheme, which covers more than 2 million farmers, will use technology to help them adapt to climate change, protect forests and detect social risks.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation reported that the Rainforest Alliance will strengthen its food certification system to ensure that producers and brands make better use of technology to address climate change, respect human rights and invest in sustainable agriculture .
International certification bodies Rainforest Chile Mobile Number List Alliance and UTZ merged in 2018 and provide ethical labeling for coffee, tea, cocoa and bananas to meet growing consumer demand.
Sustainability certification has changed dramatically in the last five to ten years. Now there are much bigger challenges.
Ruth Rennie, director of standards and assurance at the Rainforest Alliance.
To adapt to climate change, certified farmers will assess the risks they face, put in place emergency measures to deal with floods and drought, and take climate resilience into account in their choice of crops.
Climate change is pushing new challenges our way all the time. Social inequalities are increasing in the world. We have to look at those things constantly.
Thomson Reuters Foundation.
According to Rennie, consumers are demanding more information about where their products come from and expect brands to demonstrate that they have a positive environmental and social impact .
Around the world, more than 2 million farmers currently use Alliance certification schemes, which help ensure that commodities are not linked to deforestation and can be traced from producer to buyer.
Producers must also adopt good agricultural and water management practices as well as have systems in place to address issues such as child labor and forced labor, while taking care of workers' rights.
More than 5,000 food buyers and companies source ingredients from the programs, including Nestlé, Unilever, Hershey Co, Walmart, Dole and Chiquita.
The revised standard – which will replace existing plans and use the Alliance's green frog seal – was developed over two years in consultation with more than 1,000 people in almost 50 countries.
You will move from a “pass-fail” system that auditors use to a “continuous improvement” model that identifies and addresses future risks.
Ruth Rennie, director of standards and assurance at the Rainforest Alliance.
Members will have to meet strengthened criteria on forest protection and social issues, while analyzing where climate and human rights risks occur in their supply chains and creating a plan to overcome them, he said.
Better use of technology and data is a critical part of the new plan and members are expected to use monitoring tools to identify risks such as deforestation as they emerge, he added.
The new program will also introduce a mandatory premium or investment to support food producers' sustainability efforts.
We cannot expect farmers to cover all the costs to obtain certification, without any real benefit.
Ruth Rennie, director of standards and assurance at the Rainforest Alliance.
The Washington Post reported last year that UTZ had found that the farms it certified among Ivory Coast's top cocoa producers were more likely to employ child labor than those that were not certified, while many were in forests. protected. They later lost their certification.
Registration for the new standard will begin in January and the new requirements will be mandatory from July 2021.
Darrell High School, responsible for Nestlé's cocoa scheme, which recently decided to source cocoa for its KitKat chocolate bars from Rainforest Alliance producers, as well as for other snacks it makes, welcomed the new emphasis on «continuous improvement».
We are confident that this will he.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation reported that the Rainforest Alliance will strengthen its food certification system to ensure that producers and brands make better use of technology to address climate change, respect human rights and invest in sustainable agriculture .
International certification bodies Rainforest Chile Mobile Number List Alliance and UTZ merged in 2018 and provide ethical labeling for coffee, tea, cocoa and bananas to meet growing consumer demand.
Sustainability certification has changed dramatically in the last five to ten years. Now there are much bigger challenges.
Ruth Rennie, director of standards and assurance at the Rainforest Alliance.
To adapt to climate change, certified farmers will assess the risks they face, put in place emergency measures to deal with floods and drought, and take climate resilience into account in their choice of crops.
Climate change is pushing new challenges our way all the time. Social inequalities are increasing in the world. We have to look at those things constantly.
Thomson Reuters Foundation.
According to Rennie, consumers are demanding more information about where their products come from and expect brands to demonstrate that they have a positive environmental and social impact .
Around the world, more than 2 million farmers currently use Alliance certification schemes, which help ensure that commodities are not linked to deforestation and can be traced from producer to buyer.
Producers must also adopt good agricultural and water management practices as well as have systems in place to address issues such as child labor and forced labor, while taking care of workers' rights.
More than 5,000 food buyers and companies source ingredients from the programs, including Nestlé, Unilever, Hershey Co, Walmart, Dole and Chiquita.
The revised standard – which will replace existing plans and use the Alliance's green frog seal – was developed over two years in consultation with more than 1,000 people in almost 50 countries.
You will move from a “pass-fail” system that auditors use to a “continuous improvement” model that identifies and addresses future risks.
Ruth Rennie, director of standards and assurance at the Rainforest Alliance.
Members will have to meet strengthened criteria on forest protection and social issues, while analyzing where climate and human rights risks occur in their supply chains and creating a plan to overcome them, he said.
Better use of technology and data is a critical part of the new plan and members are expected to use monitoring tools to identify risks such as deforestation as they emerge, he added.
The new program will also introduce a mandatory premium or investment to support food producers' sustainability efforts.
We cannot expect farmers to cover all the costs to obtain certification, without any real benefit.
Ruth Rennie, director of standards and assurance at the Rainforest Alliance.
The Washington Post reported last year that UTZ had found that the farms it certified among Ivory Coast's top cocoa producers were more likely to employ child labor than those that were not certified, while many were in forests. protected. They later lost their certification.
Registration for the new standard will begin in January and the new requirements will be mandatory from July 2021.
Darrell High School, responsible for Nestlé's cocoa scheme, which recently decided to source cocoa for its KitKat chocolate bars from Rainforest Alliance producers, as well as for other snacks it makes, welcomed the new emphasis on «continuous improvement».
We are confident that this will he.