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Rainforest Allience certificate holder list
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/business/certification/certificate-search-and-public-summaries/
View our database to search for all farms, farmer groups, and supply chain certificates in the Rainforest Alliance’s certification program
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/business/certification/certificate-search-and-public-summaries/
View our database to search for all farms, farmer groups, and supply chain certificates in the Rainforest Alliance’s certification program
Report, Tea Certification Data Report 2020
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Tea-Certification-Data-Report-2020.pdf
The main goal of this report is to present the scope and scale of the Rainforest Alliance and UTZ tea certification programs in 2020 – calendar year. The report is created to inform our stakeholders and is part of our commitment to transparency. The report focuses on the key indicators related to:
• Market uptake: sales of Rainforest Alliance Certified and UTZ certified tea;
• Program reach: estimated Rainforest Alliance Certified and UTZ certified tea production, premiums being paid and multi-certification.
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Tea-Certification-Data-Report-2020.pdf
The main goal of this report is to present the scope and scale of the Rainforest Alliance and UTZ tea certification programs in 2020 – calendar year. The report is created to inform our stakeholders and is part of our commitment to transparency. The report focuses on the key indicators related to:
• Market uptake: sales of Rainforest Alliance Certified and UTZ certified tea;
• Program reach: estimated Rainforest Alliance Certified and UTZ certified tea production, premiums being paid and multi-certification.
Rainforest Alliance Tea Traceability Webinar Slides
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/RA-Tea-Traceability-in-MultiTrace-Webinar-April-2022.pdf
Slides from a Rainforest Alliance presentation on tracebility in tea supply chains. Targeted audience is to RA certificate holders. Full traceability is a requirement of certification since July 2022.
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/RA-Tea-Traceability-in-MultiTrace-Webinar-April-2022.pdf
Slides from a Rainforest Alliance presentation on tracebility in tea supply chains. Targeted audience is to RA certificate holders. Full traceability is a requirement of certification since July 2022.
Tea Selling Mark Guidance
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/RA-G-MT-1-V1-Tea-Selling-Marks.pdf
A selling mark is the name under which the factory sells its tea. This may or may not be the same name as the garden mark (noting that smallholders do not have garden marks – garden marks are associated with estates and origins where tea was introduced/managed under a British system). Note: Buyers often use the term “garden mark”, or just “mark” as shorthand for selling mark. A selling mark is:
• Printed on the tea sacks shipped from farm CHs factories or bulking factories,
• Will be on purchase orders, contracts, invoices etc.,
• Is used in auction catalogues,
• Is used in the ERP systems of buyers, if they have one,
• In the Rainforest Alliance traceability platform selling mark is a key identifier in the
footprint together with variety and producer.
• The identity or "brand" of the tea as produced/packed/sold into the marketplace. It can denote the origin/factory/quality/type of the tea in question. Multiple grades (leaf quality / size) can be assigned under one Selling Mark.
A selling mark can be:
• The name of the garden producing the tea
• The name of the village/group/community producing the tea
• The factory name/location
• Part of the certificate name
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/RA-G-MT-1-V1-Tea-Selling-Marks.pdf
A selling mark is the name under which the factory sells its tea. This may or may not be the same name as the garden mark (noting that smallholders do not have garden marks – garden marks are associated with estates and origins where tea was introduced/managed under a British system). Note: Buyers often use the term “garden mark”, or just “mark” as shorthand for selling mark. A selling mark is:
• Printed on the tea sacks shipped from farm CHs factories or bulking factories,
• Will be on purchase orders, contracts, invoices etc.,
• Is used in auction catalogues,
• Is used in the ERP systems of buyers, if they have one,
• In the Rainforest Alliance traceability platform selling mark is a key identifier in the
footprint together with variety and producer.
• The identity or "brand" of the tea as produced/packed/sold into the marketplace. It can denote the origin/factory/quality/type of the tea in question. Multiple grades (leaf quality / size) can be assigned under one Selling Mark.
A selling mark can be:
• The name of the garden producing the tea
• The name of the village/group/community producing the tea
• The factory name/location
• Part of the certificate name
Paper, Revealing and concealing power in the sustainable tea
supply chain
https://research-api.cbs.dk/ws/files/69553351/matthew_archer_et_al_its_up_to_the_market_to_decide_publishersversion.pdf
In 2007, Unilever, the world’s largest tea company, announced plans to source its entire tea supply sustainably, beginning with the certification of its tea producers in East Africa to Rainforest Alliance standards. As a major buyer of Kenyan tea, Unilever’s decision pushed tea producers across Kenya to subscribe to Rainforest Alliance’s sustainable agriculture standard in order to maintain access to the global tea market; according to a 2018 report, over 85% of Kenya’s tea producers were Rainforest Alliance certified. Drawing on ethnographic material among supply chain actors across different sites along the sustainable tea value chain (from those designing and disseminating standards to tea traders to smallholder tea farmers), this article examines how these actors frequently attributed the power to determine the outcomes of certification to a faceless ‘market’. Deferring to ‘the market’, we observe, served primarily to mask theoutsized power of lead firms (in particular Unilever) to determine conditions of tea production and trade. At the same time, ‘the market’ was also in some cases qualified by our interlocutors, allowing them implicitly (and at times explicitly) to reveal power and give it a face.
https://research-api.cbs.dk/ws/files/69553351/matthew_archer_et_al_its_up_to_the_market_to_decide_publishersversion.pdf
In 2007, Unilever, the world’s largest tea company, announced plans to source its entire tea supply sustainably, beginning with the certification of its tea producers in East Africa to Rainforest Alliance standards. As a major buyer of Kenyan tea, Unilever’s decision pushed tea producers across Kenya to subscribe to Rainforest Alliance’s sustainable agriculture standard in order to maintain access to the global tea market; according to a 2018 report, over 85% of Kenya’s tea producers were Rainforest Alliance certified. Drawing on ethnographic material among supply chain actors across different sites along the sustainable tea value chain (from those designing and disseminating standards to tea traders to smallholder tea farmers), this article examines how these actors frequently attributed the power to determine the outcomes of certification to a faceless ‘market’. Deferring to ‘the market’, we observe, served primarily to mask theoutsized power of lead firms (in particular Unilever) to determine conditions of tea production and trade. At the same time, ‘the market’ was also in some cases qualified by our interlocutors, allowing them implicitly (and at times explicitly) to reveal power and give it a face.
Report, Certified Unilever Tea Small Cup, Big Difference? (2011)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1961574
For this study one hundred tea workers were interviewed on a total of eight tea plantation companies, all supplying tea to Unilever. Seven of these plantations are located in India and the remaining plantation concerns Unilever?s own tea plantation in Kenya. It was found that working conditions on tea estates that supply Unilever are problematic despite having been certified by the sustainability standard system RA. This in turn raises concerns about the effectiveness and credibility of this standard. On all the RA certified estates in India there were issues with wages either including too few benefits or partly being paid in kind and not in cash. Also women workers are being discriminated against (promotion, benefits), many casual workers remain permanently casual and workers are applying pesticides without protective gear. Moreover, most of these issues constitute violations of Indian labour legislation and ILO standards as well as Unilever?s own standards for suppliers. All of them are violations of RA standards and should lead to withdrawal of RA certification.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1961574
For this study one hundred tea workers were interviewed on a total of eight tea plantation companies, all supplying tea to Unilever. Seven of these plantations are located in India and the remaining plantation concerns Unilever?s own tea plantation in Kenya. It was found that working conditions on tea estates that supply Unilever are problematic despite having been certified by the sustainability standard system RA. This in turn raises concerns about the effectiveness and credibility of this standard. On all the RA certified estates in India there were issues with wages either including too few benefits or partly being paid in kind and not in cash. Also women workers are being discriminated against (promotion, benefits), many casual workers remain permanently casual and workers are applying pesticides without protective gear. Moreover, most of these issues constitute violations of Indian labour legislation and ILO standards as well as Unilever?s own standards for suppliers. All of them are violations of RA standards and should lead to withdrawal of RA certification.
Rainforest Alliance commodity dashboard
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/find-certified/
Certification status dashboard
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/find-certified/
Certification status dashboard
Rainforest Alliance guidance Traceability document 2022
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/RA-Traceability-Guidance.pdf
Traceability ensures that the Rainforest Alliance is able to follow a product from the brand owner back through the supply chain to a certified farm. Traceability is essential to ensure that products sold as certified comply with this promise. Traceability refers to the documentation that tracks the flows of certified volumes throughout the supply chain.
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/RA-Traceability-Guidance.pdf
Traceability ensures that the Rainforest Alliance is able to follow a product from the brand owner back through the supply chain to a certified farm. Traceability is essential to ensure that products sold as certified comply with this promise. Traceability refers to the documentation that tracks the flows of certified volumes throughout the supply chain.