Rainforest Alliance

This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Rainforest Alliance" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Rainforest Alliance

Formation	1987; 37 years ago (1987)
Founder	Daniel Katz
Type	NGO
Headquarters	New York City, New York, United States
Chairman	Daniel Katz
CEO	Santiago Gowland
Revenue (2022)	US$88,051,081
Expenses (2022)	US$93,151,598
Staff (2022)	701
Website	www.rainforest-alliance.org

The Rainforest Alliance is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) with staff in more than 20 countries and operations in more than 70 countries.^[1][2] It was founded in 1987 by Daniel Katz, an American environmental activist, who serves as the chair of the board of directors. The NGO states that its mission is "to create a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities."^[3] Its work includes the provision of an environmental certification for sustainability in agriculture. In parallel to its certification program, the Rainforest Alliance develops and implements long-term conservation and community development programs in a number of critically important tropical landscapes where commodity production threatens ecosystem health and the well-being of rural communities.^[4]

The Rainforest Alliance is a product-oriented multistakeholder governance group combining the interests of companies, farmers, foresters, communities, and consumers to produce sustainable and harmonious goods.^[3]