Summary
In 2007, a farm in Kenya became the first tea producer to achieve Rainforest Alliance certification. This report focuses on data found in certification audit reports from Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania. These certification audit reports are valuable because they include data on a farm’s compliance with specific criteria in the SAN Sustainable Agriculture standard (Sustainable Agriculture
Network 2010) at the time of the first audit and at all subsequent audits, allowing to determine how compliance rates for individual criteria change over time.