Rainforest Alliance
Regenerative Agriculture
Certification
Explore the framework, choose your pathway, and find the official requirements behind each topic.
Farm Requirements v1.0 · effective March 1, 2026
Sources reviewed November 1, 2026
Five areas of impact
Select an area to explore its focus and related documents. Official terminology is retained; explanatory text is an editorial overview. Full binding requirements remain in the linked Rainforest Alliance documents.
Does regenerative certification also address people?
“At the same time, it retains strong social requirements.”
Verbatim excerpt from the official farm-standard overview.
Read the farm-standard overview ↗Check the route before you start
Supported crops
Select a crop to see the status reported on the program page at the review date.
Add-on and standalone formats
SAS = Sustainable Agriculture Standard. RAS = Regenerative Agriculture Standard. A published standard and an available enrollment route are different milestones; check the latest rollout information with Rainforest Alliance.
Choose your certification pathway
Click through the journey
These are navigation milestones, not guaranteed durations. Your role and certification scope determine the process.
What about mixed farm scopes and audit timing?
Farm certificate scope and audit timing are governed by the implementation policy.
“RAS may only be added on during the usual audit cycle.”
Read the binding implementation policy ↗From the big picture to the detail
Search this guide’s topics and source links. These are editorial summaries, not the full text of the standards. Open each official source for applicability, thresholds, exceptions and evidence requirements.
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How current is this guide?
This is a dated snapshot of Rainforest Alliance’s public sources reviewed November 1, 2026. The farm-standard overview lists v1.0 as effective March 1, 2026 and records subsequent corrections, including an April 2026 correction to the add-on list. The linked documents may be updated after this guide.
The topic explorer does not replace the binding standard, implementation policy, annexes, certification rules or certification-body decisions.