Since its founding 25 years ago, the Rainforest Alliance has pioneered a comprehensive transformation across the industries that most impact our environment—farming, forestry and tourism— and successfully engaged the support of consumers around the world to protect the forests and ecosystems that are essential to our future. Across six continents, the Rainforest Alliance has protected hundreds of millions of acres of forests and fragile ecosystems from destruction, trained hundreds of thousands of farmers in sustainable agriculture techniques, improved social conditions for millions of people, including workers and their families, and introduced principles of sustainability up and down the supply chain, from growers and producers to consumers. This report incorporates dozens of impact studies to demonstrate how the spread of sound land-use practices and the development of sustainable supply chains have begun to slow the tide of destruction and lay the groundwork for a better future.
