By Robin Fostel | Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance has developed the Farmer Training App to support the roll out of the recently revised certification standard set by the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN). The 2017 SAN Standard becomes mandatory for all farms, groups, and cooperatives currently certified through the Rainforest Alliance/SAN system in July 2017. The Farmer Training App will enable smallholder farmers to learn more about the new criteria within the revised standard and maintain their certification through best practices. The Rainforest Alliance aims to leverage the Farmer Training App to increase climate-smart agricultural practices on smallholder farms in remote rural areas.
Climate-smart agricultural best practices help farmers increase their yields, without the need to expand their farmland, and with reduced inputs. With low-cost smartphones or tablets, which are widely available globally, and with telecommunications infrastructures growing in developing nations, agricultural technology is an increasingly vital way to share information. Connecting rural farmers to climate-smart agricultural practices, each other, and the world is an important step towards climate adaptation and ensuring food security.
Read a recent article about this project: https://impact.vice.com/en_us/article/mbanjp/new-app-aims-to-save-the-rainforest-without-leaving-local-farmers-behind
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