Conversion Rates to Indicate Volumes in the New Rainforest Alliance Certification Program

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Supply Chain Certificate Holders can use the default conversion rates of some Rainforest Alliance Certified crops in the tables below to indicate their volumes.

Please be aware that these conversion rates can only be used for the total volume indication during registration in the RACP, our certification and traceability platform. During this process, you must indicate the estimated total volume (certified and non-certified) of crop equivalent in twelve months.  For more information on the thresholds, please refer to point 1.3.7 in the 2020 Rainforest Alliance Certification and Auditing Rules.

Note: For Identity Preserve and Segregation traceability, you should continue to input the actual conversion rates of their physical processes.

Cocoa

To help you calculate the total volume of Cocoa Bean equivalent, you can use our Excel calculator.

Input Product

Output Product

Conversation Rate

Beans

Nibs or Liquor

0.82

Nibs

Liquor

1.00

Nibs or Liquor

Butter

0.5

Nibs or Liquor

Powder

0.5

Note: for cocoa, these are aligned with mass balance conversion rates.

Coffee

To help you calculate the total volume of Green Coffee equivalent, you can use our Excel calculator.

Input Product

Output Product

Conversation Rate

Cherries

Dried Cherries

0.33

Cherries

Parchment

0.22

Dried Cherries

Green Coffee

0.5

Parchment

Green Coffee

0.8

Green Coffee

Monsooned Coffee

1

Green Coffee

Roasted Coffee

0.84

Green Coffee

Soluble Coffee

0.39

Green Coffee

Liquid Coffee

1

Green Coffee

Decaffeinated Green Coffee

0.95

Decaffeinated Green Coffee

Decaffeinated Roasted Coffee

0.8

Monsooned Coffee

Roasted Monsooned Coffee

0.82

Tea

To help you calculate the total volume of Made Tea equivalent, you can use our Excel calculator.

Input Product

Output Product

Conversation Rate

Green Leaf

Made Tea

0.22

Made Tea

Deffaceinatted Made Tea

0.9

Green Leaf

Green Leaf Instant

0.22

Made Tea

Instant Tea - Liquid

0.25

Made Tea

Instant Tea - Powder

0.25

Hazelnut

To help you calculate the total volume of Hazelnut Kernel equivalent, you can use our Excel calculator.

Input Product

Output Product

Conversation Rate

Hazelnut in Shell

Hazelnut in Kernel

0.50

Hazelnut in Kernel

Roasted Hazelnut Kernel

0.94

Hazelnut in Kernel

Processed Hazelnut Kernel

1

Roasted Hazelnut Kernel

Processed Roasted Hazelnut Kernel

1