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What's at Stake

We work across East Africa, where global warming has already begun to dramatically alter the lives of rural farming communities. Severe droughts and changing rainfall patterns are wreaking havoc on crop yields, threatening farmers' livelihoods, regional food security, and remaining biodiversity hotspots.
Trees in front of Mount Kenya

The Forests of East Africa

East Africa is not just a region of vast savannas—it also contains several tropical forests, including the eastern portion of the Congo rainforest. The region's critical deforestation crisis is driven by population growth, unscrupulous timber extraction, and agricultural conversion—resulting in the loss of 9.3 percent of its forest cover from 2001 - 2009 alone.
Children washing hands in clean water

Water, the Most Precious Resource

Access to safe water is an urgent challenge for rural populations in several East African countries. In Rwanda and Burundi, more than one in four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks access. Spreading farming practices that conserve water and eliminate pollution in streams and rivers is an urgent need in the region.

Our Work

We work with tea and coffee farmers across East Africa to advance sustainable agricultural practices across vulnerable landscapes and watersheds. Through training and certification, we help farmers protect the last standing tracts of forest from agricultural conversion and safeguard the health of streams and rivers.


When Coffee Meets Water 

We've trained thousands of coffee farmers to safeguard local streams and rivers in the highlands of Rwanda, where Africa's two largest rivers, the Nile and the Congo, originate.


Financial Literacy Training 

Thousands of Kenyan coffee and tea farmers have attended our financial literacy workshops to obtain tools to boost their incomes and manage their farms more efficiently.


Protecting Water in Burundi 

The Rainforest Alliance is working with the Ijenda and Rwegura tea factories in northwest Burundi to improve water and sanitation for its 25,000 smallholder farmers.
Tea farmers Esther and Simon Langat

Sustainability Role Models In Kenya

Meet Simon and Esther Langat, a husband-and-wife team who are sustainability role models. Their farm in Kenya is part of the Momul tea factory agricultural cooperative, the first smallholder group in the country to undergo Rainforest Alliance certification (in 2009). Simon attended a Rainforest Alliance farmer field school, where he learned best management practices for sustainable tea farming.
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Our Impact

We are working in vulnerable landscapes in East Africa to restore the balance between coffee and tea farming communities and the forests around them. Research shows that supporting the economic health of these communities is crucial to forest conservation.

amount earned by indigenous and forest communities

50% more per kg

earned by workers on certified tea farms in Kenya

Higher Earnings with Sustainable Methods

In Kenya, workers on Rainforest Alliance Certified tea farms earned 50 percent more per kg plucked tea than workers on non-certified farms, according to a recent study of 250 farmers in Kenya.
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Forest conservation

19.3% increase

in probability of forest conservation that is attributable to certification

Shade Coffee Certification Helps Forests Thrive

Researchers used remote sensing data from 2005 and 2010 to compare deforestation rates on 240 coffee plots. The results showed that Rainforest Alliance certification increased the probability of forest conservation on coffee farms by 19.3 percent.
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Learn more ways we are achieving real results.
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