Rainforest Alliance and UTZ Plan Merger, New Standard in 2019
Two of coffee’s farthest reaching certification agencies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based UTZ Certified and New York-based Rainforest Alliance have announced their intention to merge under the Rainforest Alliance name.
In an announcement today, the organizations said the unified NGO will tackle environmental and social issues including climate change, deforestation, and unsustainable farming in a new, single certification standard to be published in early 2019. “Together, we will continue to protect the natural environment, striving to make sustainable agriculture and forest management the norm, an aim that is already at the core of the mission of both the Rainforest Alliance and UTZ,” the groups said.
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