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1o levels above the farm. Annual third-party certifications audit a sample of farms against a checklist; they do not generate per-plot polygons or year-by-year practice trails for every plot in the supply chain. Country-level satellite data does not name a farm; it cannot be entered on a Due Diligence Statement. Spreadsheet-based traceability falls over at smallholder scale, where a single washing station may aggregate cherry from over a thousand plots, most of them under 4 hectares."}),(0,c.jsx)("p",{style:x,children:"It is the difference between a witness statement and a sworn affidavit \u2014 the latter names the date, the place and the parties involved."}),(0,c.jsx)("h2",{style:v,children:"Why this matters now"}),(0,c.jsx)("p",{style:x,children:"The audit gate is now the regulator and the third-party validator, not the certification scheme. A Due Diligence Statement that cites a co-op average as evidence is not a defensible document. A FLAG submission that reports against an industry average gets rejected at validation. A CSRD disclosure that aggregates above farm level fails third-party assurance."}),(0,c.jsx)("p",{style:{...x,fontWeight:700,color:"#000"},children:"The audit gate asks one question: can you produce the record for this farm?"}),(0,c.jsx)("p",{style:x,children:"A coffee company that cannot answer is exposed at the legal entity level. The 4% turnover penalty in EUDR Article 25, the validation rejection cycle in SBTi, and the assurance failure in CSRD all attach to the legal entity placing the consignment on the market or making the disclosure \u2014 not to the supplier upstream."}),(0,c.jsx)("h2",{style:v,children:"How Weathersafe holds the record at farm level"}),(0,c.jsx)("p",{style:x,children:"The Weathersafe per-farm record \u2014 held across more than 250,000 coffee farms in Kenya and Rwanda since 2013 \u2014 sits against a single GPS polygon and accumulates: tree counts and ages, hectares under cultivation, farmer profile, every GPS-tagged scout visit since enrolment with timestamp and observation, every SMS practice trigger sent and the weather conditions that triggered it, every kilogram of cherry captured at intake through the electronic point-of-sale (EPOS) pipeline against the harvest it came from, the full satellite stress and deforestation-monitoring history against the 31 December 2020 EUDR baseline, and the GAP77 practice observance trail. Together this is the chain of custody \u2014 farm to washing station to lot to shipment, traceable end-to-end and queryable by polygon, harvest year, or shipment lot. Polygon mapping plus scout records plus EPOS is supplier-specific activity data, the format GHG Protocol Cat 1 reporting prefers over default literature factors."}),(0,c.jsx)("p",{style:x,children:"When a buyer composes an EUDR Due Diligence Statement, a FLAG-validated Scope 3 disclosure or a CSRD disclosure, the evidence pack is assembled from these per-farm records \u2014 not retrofitted at the end of the season. Each pack is signed by the washing station as an Origin Enviro+ Report."}),(0,c.jsxs)("p",{style:x,children:["The fortnightly visit cadence underneath the record is covered in ",(0,c.jsx)(a.N_,{to:"/blog/every-coffee-farm-every-two-weeks",style:w,children:"Why GAP77 visits every coffee farm every two weeks"}),". 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