Associação Alianima
Evaluated Charity
Associação Alianima focuses on helping the millions of farmed animals that endure immense suffering in the food production system in Brazil. They engage in policy work and corporate and producer outreach using successful approaches backed by sound reasoning. Their programs seem strategically designed to improve the welfare standards of farmed animals in Brazil by involving government entities, producers, and retailers. However, relative to their age, they have achieved fewer corporate commitments and policy wins to date compared to some of this year’s Recommended Charities. Despite this, we positively note that their accountability work—especially regarding holding companies accountable for their cage-free commitments—seems particularly impactful in the shorter term, as many commitments with 2025 and 2026 deadlines may not otherwise be implemented.
| Review Published: | 2024 |
WE WORK FOR BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS FOR ANIMALS EXPLOITED ON FACTORY FARMS IN BRAZIL.
What does Associação Alianima do?
Associação Alianima is a Brazilian nonprofit that works to banish the worst animal agriculture practices, promote accountability among institutions and consumers, and improve the lives of egg-laying hens, farmed pigs, chickens raised for meat, and farmed fishes. The organization has a technical team of specialists dedicated to addressing animal welfare issues in the agriculture sector, including veterinarians, animal scientists, and biologists. They also collaborate with government representatives with scientific knowledge to ensure the cause is taken seriously in a country economically driven by agribusiness. Alianima deals with the issue by considering cross-cutting themes such as environmental conservation, food security, and social justice.
2023 revenue: $333,882
Staff size: 10
Year founded: 2019
How is Associação Alianima’s organizational health?
Our assessment indicates Alianima has positive staff engagement (average staff engagement survey score = 4.7/5) and is operating in ways that support their effectiveness and stability. They have a process in place to evaluate leadership, their policies are made available to all staff, and they were transparent during our assessment by providing all the information we requested. Staff positively noted that Alianima takes their work seriously and approaches it with rigor. Staff also enjoy a good external reputation and internal work culture.
How does Alianima create change for animals?
Brazil has a large and growing number of farmed animals who are kept and killed in cruel conditions. More companies are making commitments to treat animals better, but there is limited follow-through on these commitments. Alianima is making a valuable contribution to holding Brazil-based companies accountable for their welfare commitments. Their Pig Watch and Egg Watch reports in particular have received some positive attention from the government, industry, and the media. Their political outreach work also seems well thought through and implemented. Their work to engage the largest producers of broiler chickens has the potential to impact a large number of animals. When companies start making commitments, their Broiler Watch and Fish Watch reports can become valuable tools to hold companies accountable. However, there are sufficient uncertainties about the impact of their corporate commitment work that we ultimately did not choose to recommend them this year.
Due to limited data and empirical evidence, our cost-effectiveness analysis played a minimal role in our recommendation decision for Alianima.
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Alianima’s Recent Achievements
- Alianima contributed to Master and Alibem, pork producer and processors with approximately 40,000 and 72,000 sows, respectively, announcing welfare policies that include going crate-free by 2031.
- Alianima helped Minerva Foods, a leading beef exporter in South America, commit to using only cage-free eggs in its products starting in 2026.
