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The earlier risk sits in the establishment window after transplant and in the soil \u2014 and is rarely visible in the data that buyers receive."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:{...b,fontWeight:700,color:"#000"},children:"The information layer was watching the wrong stage."}),(0,h.jsx)("h2",{style:w,children:"What's actually happening at origin"}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"Seedlings are grown at the coffee washing station and distributed to farmers for planting on their own land. The handover is reported as a tree delivered. The on-farm reality is harder."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"Across Weathersafe's tracking of distributed seedlings at washing stations in Kenya and Rwanda since 2013, around 40% die shortly after transplant \u2014 transplant shock, nematodes, J-root, soil that cannot support recovery. Of those that survive, another 40% never become productive within their bearing window. Only about 20 trees in 100 reach the cherry harvest a buyer ultimately sees."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"The soils those seedlings are planted into are typically devoid of microbiological life. Years of synthetic fertiliser without organic matter, or limited soil management, have stripped the bacteria, fungi and worms that make nutrients available to a coffee tree."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"Heavy rainfall on slope-grown coffee then carries off whatever fertiliser the farmer has applied. In many cases the trees never drink."}),(0,h.jsx)("h2",{style:w,children:"Why satellites and weather models cannot fix it"}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"Satellite imagery, AI yield models and hyper-local weather forecasting all measure the canopy, the conditions and the cherry that is forming. They cannot see the seedling that died in the weeks after transplant, the soil that has no biology, or the fertiliser that washed off after the November rains."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"This is the equivalent of optimising delivery routes for trucks that were never built. Better information about a system whose foundations are missing does not change the outcome."}),(0,h.jsx)("h2",{style:w,children:"Why this matters for sourcing and compliance"}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"The standard origin metric a sustainability report cites is trees distributed. The metric a yield forecast actually depends on is trees that grew, survived transplant, and reached productive bearing. The two diverge by a factor of five."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"EUDR Due Diligence Statements, SBTi FLAG reporting and CSRD disclosures all rely on farm-level data. When that data is collected on top of unmeasured on-farm loss, the wrong baseline gets embedded in a regulated submission. A checklist audit run once a year cannot detect this. A satellite pass cannot detect this. The intervention has to happen at the moment of planting and through the establishment window after."}),(0,h.jsx)("h2",{style:w,children:"How Weathersafe rebuilt the baseline"}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:(0,h.jsx)("strong",{children:"On farms running the standard, post-transplant seedling survival exceeds 90% \u2014 versus a ~60% baseline that absorbs most of coffee's hidden yield loss."})}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"Weathersafe ran demo farms with farmers, alongside the satellite and weather work \u2014 not before it. The practices that close the gap form an unbroken chain from germination bed to bearing tree \u2014 a mix of commercial biological treatments and recipes built at the washing station, not a product line being sold."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"The chain begins in the washing station nursery. The germination medium is built from native soil, sand and charc

1oal, sanitised with BioNematox to block nematode attack on developing roots. Seedlings are foliar-fed Green Magic for UV protection, weekly Worm Tea for nutrient density, and Problad after rain-driven humidity windows to cut fungal mortality. Every seedling is then inspected for J-root or Y-root deformity before it leaves the station \u2014 malformed roots are discarded, not planted out and watched fail two years later."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"The transplant pit on the farm is filled with Tera Preta 2.0 \u2014 biochar, native soil and worm castings \u2014 which rebuilds the soil microbiology a transplanted root needs to feed itself and counters the same nematode and J-root pressures the nursery targeted upstream. The transplant itself is foliar-sprayed and shade-netted through the establishment window."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"Only then do the farm-level practices apply: tree density of 4,400 per hectare with banana intercropping for shade, erosion channels cut on contour to keep topsoil and inputs around the root zone, and cherry pulp from each washing station composted with EM-1 fermentation and returned to the catchment as soil amendment."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:b,children:"Over 150,000 seedlings have been tracked from germination through to productive years to identify which interventions actually held."}),(0,h.jsxs)("p",{style:b,children:["These practices form ",(0,h.jsx)(i.N_,{to:"/about-gap-77",style:x,children:"GAP77"})," \u2014 Weathersafe's 77-point regenerative coffee standard, implemented through the ",(0,h.jsx)(i.N_,{to:"/methodology#washing-station-hub",style:x,children:"washing station"})," and verified weekly by satellite, scout and intake records. The downstream effect is concrete: yield forecasts calibrated against a population of trees that will live, and EUDR and SBTi FLAG submissions anchored in farm-level practice data rather than annual checklist promises. The ",(0,h.jsx)(i.N_,{to:"/methodology",style:x,children:"methodology"})," walks through how the satellite, weather and ground layers tie back to the practice layer that determines whether any of them measure anything real."]})]})})})}),(0,h.jsx)(l.Cu,{className:"py-10 py-lg-90",style:{borderTop:"1px solid #f0f0f0",borderBottom:"1px solid #f0f0f0"},children:(0,h.jsx)(l.Cu.Content,{children:(0,h.jsx)(n.A,{children:(0,h.jsxs)(r.A,{className:"align-items-start",children:[(0,h.jsxs)(o.A,{lg:"5",style:{marginTop:"-0.75rem"},children:[(0,h.jsxs)("h2",{style:{fontFamily:d,fontWeight:800,fontSize:"clamp(2.2rem, 4vw, 3.5rem)",letterSpacing:"-0.03em",lineHeight:1.05,color:"#000",marginBottom:"2rem"},children:["See GAP77",(0,h.jsx)("br",{}),"in action."]}),(0,h.jsxs)("div",{style:{display:"flex",gap:"1rem",flexWrap:"wrap"},children:[(0,h.jsx)(i.N_,{to:"/contact-us-solution",style:{fontFamily:d,fontWeight:600,fontSize:"0.95rem",color:"#fff",background:c,borderRadius:"6px",padding:"0.75rem 1.75rem",textDecoration:"none"},children:"Talk to us"}),(0,h.jsx)(i.N_,{to:"/methodology",style:{fontFamily:d,fontWeight:600,fontSize:"0.95rem",color:"#000",background:"#fff",border:"1px solid #d0d0d0",borderRadius:"6px",padding:"0.75rem 1.75rem",textDecoration:"none"},children:"Read the methodology"})]})]}),(0,h.jsx)(o.A,{lg:"5",className:"offset-lg-2",children:(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:{fontFamily:d,fontWeight:400,fontSize:"1.55rem",lineHeight:1.4,color:"#333",marginBottom:0},children:"77 practices. 13 years. Built with farmers, not for them."})})]})})})})]})}}}]);
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