1"use strict";(self.webpackChunkNioLandReact=self.webpackChunkNioLandReact||[]).push([[502],{502:(e,a,t)=>{t.r(a),t.d(a,{default:()=>p});var r=t(5043),o=t(3519),i=t(1072),s=t(8602),n=t(3216),c=t(3107),f=t(579);const l="'Inter', sans-serif",d="#28a745",h=[{id:"what-is-weathersafe",q:"What is Weathersafe?",a:'<p>Weathersafe is an origin intelligence platform for coffee. It integrates <a href="/methodology#satellite-monitoring">satellite farm health monitoring</a>, <a href="/methodology#weather-forecasting">hyper-local weather forecasting</a> and the <a href="/about-gap-77">GAP77 farming programme</a> into one system delivered through coffee washing stations. Buyers get farm-level visibility, traceability and yield forecasts across every sourcing zone. Technology supports and enforces the farming programme on the ground.</p>'},{id:"who-founded-weathersafe",q:"Who founded Weathersafe?",a:'<p>Weathersafe was founded by David Mills in 2013, after years of hands-on work with smallholder coffee farmers in East Africa. The company emerged from the realisation that <a href="/blog/origin-technology-and-coffee-yields">satellite, AI and weather technology only mattered when paired with what was actually happening on the ground</a>. <a href="/about-gap-77">GAP77</a>, the farming programme built on those lessons, remains the backbone of the platform.</p>'},{id:"what-is-gap77",q:"What is GAP77?",a:'<p>GAP77 is a regenerative coffee farming standard \u2014 <strong>77 field-tested practices</strong> developed over 13 years with agronomists, soil biologists and entomologists in East Africa. It covers nursery, soil, intercropping, pest control, pruning and water management. Delivered through <a href="/methodology#washing-station-hub">coffee washing stations</a> and <a href="/blog/every-coffee-farm-every-two-weeks">verified continuously through satellite and ground data</a>. Read against CSRD ESRS E1 and SBTi FLAG, GAP77 is a transition pathway \u2014 the on-farm portion of a coffee buyer\'s transition plan disclosure.</p>'},{id:"how-gap77-triples-income",q:"How does GAP77 triple farmer income?",a:'<p>GAP77 triples farmer income by stacking higher tree density (4,400 per hectare versus a typical 2,500) on top of higher per-tree yields. Cherry yield typically rises from <strong>0.3 kg to 4 kg per tree</strong> over three seasons, supported by <a href="/blog/most-coffee-seedlings-never-produce">post-transplant seedling survival above 90%</a> against a ~60% baseline on farms not running the standard, <a href="/blog/coffee-tera-preta-amazonian-soil">restored soil through Tera Preta 2.0</a>, targeted pest control and weather-driven interventions. Together \u2014 more trees per hectare, more cherry per tree \u2014 these compound into the tripling of income documented across <a href="/impact-report">198,406 farmers in Kenya and Rwanda</a>. <a href="/blog/the-coffee-yield-gap">Why coffee farms produce 8% of what they could</a> covers the broader yield-gap frame.</p>'},{id:"77-practices-explained",q:"What are the 77 practices in GAP77?",a:'<p>The 77 practices cover nursery operations, soil preparation, planting, <a href="/blog/gap77-banana-not-eucalyptus">banana intercropping</a>, <a href="/blog/fishbone-system-coffee-water">water management</a>, composting, pruning and pest scouting. Each practice has a specific trigger \u2014 a weather condition, a growth stage or a scouting observation \u2014 and a measurable outcome.</p>'},{id:"gap77-vs-certification",q:"How is GAP77 different from a certification like Rainforest Alliance?",a:'<p>GAP77 is continuously verified, not annually audited. Certifications like Rainforest Alliance audit a farm once a year against a checklist. GAP77 <a href="/blog/every-coffee-farm-every-two-weeks">monitors every farm every week</a> through satellite, scouting and washing-station records. Certifications open markets; GAP77 drives the underlying outcomes. Farms can be both.</p>'},{id:"what-is-tera-preta",q:"What is Tera Preta 2.0?",a:'<p>Tera Preta 2.0 is a soil amendment of biochar, native soil and worm castings, used in every coffee transplant pit under GAP77. It improves moisture retention, nutrient cycling and soil structure \u2014 and sequesters carbon for decades. <a href="/blog/coffee-tera-preta-amazonian-soil">The name comes from the Amazonian <em>Terra Preta</em> tradition</a> of carbon-rich, fertile soils. In SBTi FLAG and GHG Protocol LSRS terms, this is a land-management removal activity \u2014 biochar carbon stable for centuries, recorded under the removals ledger.</p>'},{id:"coffee-soils-biologically-dead",q:"Why are most coffee soils biologically dead?",a:'<p>Across thirteen years of soil sampling on coffee farms in Kenya and Rwanda, most return near-empty on biological tests \u2014 bacteria, fungi and microbes are missing from the soil that is supposed to feed the tree. The cause is decades of synthetic fertiliser applied without organic matter, or no soil management at all. <a href="/blog/most-coffee-soils-biologically-dead">Why most coffee soils are biologically dead</a> covers the diagnosis.</p>'},{id:"why-intercrop-banana-coffee",q:"Why intercrop banana trees with coffee?",a:'<p>Banana trees provide shade, wind protection and early income \u2014 fruit sells in year one while coffee matures. Yellowing banana leaves become mulch on the same farm \u2014 alkaline, renewable, and they <a href="/blog/gap77-banana-not-eucalyptus">lift soil pH instead of acidifying it like eucalyptus leaves do</a>. Banana pendulums feed the worm compost beds. Target coffee density under banana intercropping: <strong>4,400 trees per hectare</strong>.</p>'},{id:"how-farmers-are-trained",q:"How do farmers get trained on GAP77?",a:'<p>Training is delivered monthly at the <a href="/methodology#washing-station-hub">coffee washing station</a>, where farmers already gather to deliver cherry. Group sessions cover seasonal topics \u2014 pruning, nursery management, intercropping, pest control \u2014 alongside access to a demo farm and nursery. Attendance is tracked and correlated with yield outcomes over time.</p>'},{id:"farm-visit-cadence",q:"How often are coffee farms visited under GAP77?",a:'<p>Every participating farm in a coffee washing station catchment is visited every two weeks by a general scout \u2014 GPS-tagged at the boundary, time-on-farm logged, observations written against the per-farm record at submission. <a href="/blog/every-coffee-farm-every-two-weeks">Why GAP77 visits every coffee farm every two weeks</a> covers the cadence; <a href="/blog/gps-tagged-scout-visits-coffee">Why every GAP77 scout visit is GPS-tagged</a> covers the verification layer.</p>'},{id:"what-is-coffee-washing-station",q:"What is a coffee washing station and why does it matter?",a:'<p>A Coffee Washing Station (CWS) is where farmers deliver cherry for processing. Under GAP77 it\'s also the hub for farmer training, nursery operations, composting and data collection. <a href="/methodology#washing-station-hub">One washing station reaches hundreds of farmers at once</a> \u2014 every farmer in the catchment passes through it during harvest.</p>'},{id:"how-weathersafe-uses-satellites",q:"How does Weathersafe use satellite data?",a:'<p>Every mapped coffee farm is scored weekly using 1.5-metre multispectral imagery. NDVI (a vegetation health index) flags stress; AI handles cloud cover through temporal analysis; results feed <a href="/blog/coffee-yield-forecast-13-years-groun
1d-truth">yield forecasts</a> and pest predictions. Agronomists see the washing-station catchment as a heat map \u2014 healthy farms green, underperforming farms red \u2014 covered in <a href="/blog/automating-coffee-farm-scouting">how the platform orchestrates monitoring across 250,000 farms</a>.</p>'},{id:"coffee-yield-forecast-accuracy",q:"How accurate are coffee yield forecasts?",a:'<p><a href="/blog/coffee-yield-forecast-13-years-ground-truth">Yield forecasts are calibrated against 13 years of ground-truth cherry data</a> correlated with satellite stress indicators. The model refines every harvest as new yield records \u2014 collected from farmer cohorts at the washing station \u2014 feed back in. For buyers this means procurement planning weeks before harvest, at washing-station-zone resolution.</p>'},{id:"yield-model-inputs",q:"What inputs feed the yield prediction model?",a:'<p>Three streams feed the yield prediction model: satellite-derived crop-stress signals (NDVI, water-deficit, canopy density), hyper-local weather forecasts, and thirteen years of recorded cherry yields from farmer cohorts at the washing station. The first two are the live input. The third is the calibration history that turns observation into a defensible prediction. <a href="/blog/coffee-yield-forecast-13-years-ground-truth">Full model breakdown.</a></p>'},{id:"flowering-scout-six-months",q:"How does Weathersafe forecast coffee yields six months early?",a:'<p>Once a year at flowering, a flowering scout walks selected plots in a two-stage W-formation sample (cluster-level plus per-plot) and records the number of fruit-bearing branches and flowers on five trees per plot. The aggregate flower density per cluster scales to a CWS-level harvest forecast, six months before the first cherry is picked. <a href="/blog/flowering-scout-coffee-yield-forecast">Full mechanism here.</a></p>'},{id:"coffee-leaf-rust-prediction",q:"How is coffee leaf rust predicted?",a:'<p>Coffee Leaf Rust (CLR) develops when leaves stay wet under specific temperature and humidity conditions. Satellite detects emerging canopy stress; <a href="/blog/why-coffee-farms-get-wrong-rain-forecast">weather forecasts the trigger conditions</a>; the AI model flags high-risk farms before the outbreak spreads. Farmers receive <a href="/blog/gps-tagged-scout-visits-coffee">an SMS alert through the washing station</a> to scout and apply Problad fungicide.</p>'},{id:"pest-disease-outbreaks",q:"How does Weathersafe handle pest and disease outbreaks?",a:'<p>AI models combine satellite canopy-stress signals with <a href="/blog/why-coffee-farms-get-wrong-rain-forecast">hyper-local weather</a> to predict outbreaks of Coffee Leaf Rust, Coffee Berry Disease and Antestia bugs. When conditions trigger, the agronomist gets a heat map of highest-risk farms; farmers get an SMS alert to scout or spray. Every outbreak retrains the model.</p>'},{id:"what-is-a-stress-alert",q:"What is a coffee stress alert?",a:'<p>A stress alert is an SMS sent to a specific farmer when conditions on their farm trigger a GAP77 practice \u2014 for example, mulch when two consecutive days above 28\xb0C are forecast, or clear erosion channels when heavy rain is two days out. Condition-based, not calendar-based. <a href="/blog/why-coffee-farms-get-wrong-rain-forecast">The hyper-local weather model that drives the alerts</a> resolves to the slope of one farm rather than the regional average.</p>'},{id:"weather-forecasting-coffee",q:"How does weather forecasting work for coffee farms?",a:'<p>Weathersafe combines global forecast models (GFS and ECMWF) with AI-driven hyper-local refinement tuned to each microclimate \u2014 <a href="/blog/why-coffee-farms-get-wrong-rain-forecast">covered in detail in why coffee farms get the wrong rain forecast</a>. Coffee highlands have weather patterns that change over short distances \u2014 generic regional forecasts miss them. Ensemble models also quantify uncertainty, so farmers know how confident a forecast is before acting.</p>'},{id:"hyper-local-weather",q:"What is hyper-local weather forecasting?",a:'<p>Hyper-local forecasting is weather prediction tailored to individual farms, not regions. <a href="/blog/why-coffee-farms-get-wrong-rain-forecast">Coffee farms in East African highlands experience microclimates</a> \u2014 one valley is dry while the next gets rain. Hyper-local forecasts use AI to refine global models against each farm\'s specific weather history.</p>'},{id:"what-is-eudr-for-coffee",q:"What is EUDR and why does it matter for coffee?",a:'<p>EUDR is the <strong>EU Deforestation Regulation</strong>. <a href="/blog/eudr-due-diligence-coffee">From 30 December 2026, coffee companies selling into the EU must prove their beans were not grown on land deforested after 31 December 2020</a>. Penalties for non-compliance start at 4% of annual EU-wide turnover, plus product and revenue confiscation.</p>'},{id:"what-is-a-dds",q:"What is a Due Diligence Statement?",a:'<p>A Due Diligence Statement (DDS) is a legal declaration submitted through the EU TRACES system before coffee enters the EU market. It confirms the coffee is deforestation-free and legally produced. <a href="/blog/eudr-due-diligence-coffee">Regulators can ask an importer to defend the DDS with evidence</a> for five years after submission.</p>'},{id:"article-9-eudr",q:"What is Article 9 of EUDR?",a:'<p>Article 9 requires coffee operators to complete a risk assessment per batch before submitting a DDS. It covers geolocation, country of origin, supply-chain complexity and deforestation evidence. <a href="/blog/eudr-due-diligence-coffee">A negligible-risk conclusion allows the DDS to be submitted</a>; a non-negligible conclusion triggers Article 10 mitigation before the coffee can enter the market.</p>'},{id:"eudr-deadline-coffee",q:"When is the EUDR deadline for coffee?",a:'<p><a href="/blog/eudr-due-diligence-coffee">30 December 2026</a> for large and medium coffee operators. 30 June 2027 for micro and small primary operators established before 31 December 2024. The 2025/2650 amendment also exempts certain downstream operators from submitting their own DDS \u2014 they can rely on the upstream DDS reference number where one exists. For a typical roaster, trader or importer placing coffee on the EU market, the working deadline remains 30 December 2026.</p>'},{id:"weathersafe-eudr-support",q:"How does Weathersafe support EUDR compliance?",a:'<p>
1<a href="/blog/origin-enviro-plus-report">The Origin Enviro+ Report</a> is a signed, audit-ready evidence pack that sits behind the DDS. It contains farm polygons, satellite deforestation assessment against the 31 December 2020 cut-off, protected-area overlays and historical land-use imagery \u2014 everything Article 9 requires, in the format TRACES accepts. <a href="/blog/eudr-due-diligence-coffee">Why this matters for sourcing in 2026 onward</a> covers the deadline mechanics.</p>'},{id:"whats-in-origin-enviro-report",q:"What is actually in an Origin Enviro+ Report?",a:'<p>Each Origin Enviro+ Report bundles, per consignment: the GPS polygon for every contributing farm, deforestation history against the 31 December 2020 EUDR cut-off, in-country legal compliance documentation, the GAP77 practice trail, the GPS-tagged scout visit log, and cherry-intake records linking each kilogram to its farm. Signed by the washing station. <a href="/blog/origin-enviro-plus-report">Full breakdown here.</a></p>'},{id:"pruning-vs-deforestation",q:"Won't pruning trigger false deforestation alerts?",a:"<p>Pruning is distinguished from deforestation by a regrowth check. When a coffee polygon shows canopy loss, the event is held as provisional and NDVI is tracked for up to 36 months. Regrowth confirms it as pruning \u2014 recorded, not classified as adverse impact. No regrowth confirms it as deforestation. GAP77 farms practice notching \u2014 one side stripped and bark notched at 30\u201350 cm, with the other side producing throughout \u2014 so canopy stays continuous and the deforestation trigger usually doesn't fire.</p>"},{id:"csrd-sbti-flag-coffee",q:"Does Weathersafe data support CSRD or SBTi FLAG reporting?",a:'<p>Yes. Farm-level data from Weathersafe feeds <a href="/blog/sbti-flag-coffee">CSRD and SBTi FLAG Scope 3 disclosures</a>. For coffee buyers, Scope 3 FLAG is often more than 70% of total corporate footprint \u2014 in-value-chain reductions are recognised in reporting; purchased offsets increasingly are not. <a href="/blog/coffee-flag-readiness-runway">How long it takes to get FLAG-ready</a> covers the runway from procurement decision to validated submission.</p>'},{id:"how-long-flag-ready",q:"How long does it take to get FLAG-ready for coffee?",a:'<p>Twelve to eighteen months from contract to validation-ready evidence for a single-origin roaster sourcing from Weathersafe-covered geographies. The constraint is the harvest cycle: practice records, EPOS cherry intake and scout observations have to be collected across at least one full season, and that data cannot be back-filled. <a href="/blog/coffee-flag-readiness-runway">How long does it actually take to get FLAG-ready for coffee?</a> covers the runway in detail.</p>'}];const g={"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage",mainEntity:h.map((e=>{return{"@type":"Question",name:e.q,acceptedAnswer:{"@type":"Answer",text:(a=e.a,a.replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/g," ").replace(/\s+/g," ").trim())}};var a}))},m={"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList",itemListElement:[{"@type":"ListItem",position:1,name:"Home",item:"https://www.weathersafe.co.uk/"},{"@type":"ListItem",position:2,name:"FAQ",item:"https://www.weathersafe.co.uk/faq"}]};const p=function(){return function(){const{hash:e}=(0,n.zy)();(0,r.useEffect)((()=>{if(!e)return;const a=document.querySelector(e);if(!a)return;let t=a.parentElement;for(;t;){if("DETAILS"===t.tagName){t.open=!0;break}t=t.parentElement}setTimeout((()=>a.scrollIntoView({behavior:"smooth",block:"start"})),120)}),[e])}(),(0,f.jsxs)(c.A,{title:"Frequently Asked Questions \u2014 Weathersafe",description:"Straight answers on EUDR compliance, GAP77 regenerative coffee farming, satellite monitoring, weather forecasting, pest and disease alerts and farmer training for coffee supply chains.",jsonLd:[g,m],children:[(0,f.jsx)("style",{children:`\n .faq-item { border-bottom: 1px solid #e6e6e6; padding: 1.25rem 0; }\n .faq-item summary {\n list-style: none;\n cursor: pointer;\n font-family: ${l}; font-weight: 600; font-size: 1.15rem;\n color: #000; letter-spacing: -0.01em;\n display: flex; align-items: baseline; gap: 0.75rem;\n padding-right: 2rem; position: relative;\n }\n .faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker { display: none; }\n .faq-item summary::after {\n content: '+'; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0;\n font-weight: 400; font-size: 1.5rem; color: ${d};\n transition: transform 0.15s ease;\n }\n .faq-item[open] summary::after { content: '\u2212'; }\n .faq-item .faq-answer {\n font-family: ${l}; font-weight: 400; font-size: 1rem;\n line-height: 1.65; color: #444; margin-top: 0.85rem;\n }\n .faq-item .faq-answer p { margin-bottom: 0.75rem; }\n .faq-item .faq-answer p:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }\n .faq-item .faq-answer a { color: ${d}; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(40,167,69,0.3); }\n .faq-item .faq-answer a:hover { border-bottom-color: ${d}; }\n .faq-intro { border-left: 4px solid ${d}; padding: 1rem 1.5rem; background: #f8fcf9; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; }\n .faq-intro p { font-family: ${l}; font-size: 1.05rem; line-height: 1.7; color: #333; margin-bottom: 0.85rem; }\n .faq-intro p:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }\n .faq-intro a { color: ${d}; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(40,167,69,0.3); font-weight: 600; }\n `}),(0,f.jsx)("section",{style:{paddingTop:"9rem",paddingBottom:"2.5rem",background:"#fff"},children:(0,f.jsx)(o.A,{children:(0,f.jsx)(i.A,{children:(0,f.jsx)(s.A,{lg:"10",xl:"9",children:(0,f.jsxs)("h1",{style:{fontFamily:l,fontWeight:800,fontSize:"clamp(2.8rem, 5.5vw, 4.5rem)",lineHeight:1.05,letterSpacing:"-0.04em",color:"#000",marginBottom:"0.75rem"},children:["Frequently asked",(0,f.jsx)("br",{}),(0,f.jsx)("span",{style:{color:d},children:"questions."})]})})})})}),(0,f.jsx)("section",{style:{padding:"0 0 2rem",background:"#fff"},children:(0,f.jsx)(o.A,{children:(0,f.jsx)(i.A,{children:(0,f.jsx)(s.A,{lg:"10",xl:"9",children:(0,f.jsx)("p",{style:{fontFamily:l,fontSize:"0.9rem",color:"#888",margin:0},children:"Last updated: April 2026"})})})})}),(0,f.jsx)("section",{style:{padding:"0 0 3rem",background:"#fff"},children:(0,f.jsx)(o.A,{children:(0,f.jsx)(i.A,{children:(0,f.jsx)(s.A,{lg:"10",xl:"9",children:(0,f.jsx)("div",{className:"faq-intro",children:(0,f.jsx)("p",{children:"Weathersafe is an origin intelligence platform for coffee. It integrates satellite farm health monitoring, hyper-local weather forecasting and the GAP77 farming programme \u2014 77 regenerative practices developed over 13 years with East African coffee farmers \u2014 into one system delivered through coffee washing stations. Buyers get farm-level visibility, traceability and yield forecasts across every sourcing zone. Outcomes are verified by the independent GAP77 Impact Report, a UK Space Agency-funded study covering 198,406 farmers."})})})})})}),(0,f.jsx)("section",{style:{padding:"0 0 4rem",background:"#fff"},children:(0,f.jsx)(o.A,{children:(0,f.jsx)(i.A,{children:(0,f.jsx)(s.A,{lg:"10",xl:"9",children:(0,f.jsx)("div",{children:h.map((e=>{let{id:a,q:t,a:r}=e;return(0,f.jsxs)("details",{id:a,className:"faq-item",children:[(0,f.jsx)("summary",{children:t}),(0,f.jsx)("div",{className:"faq-answer",dangerouslySetInnerHTML:{__html:r}}
1)]},a)}))})})})})}),(0,f.jsx)("section",{style:{padding:"3.5rem 0",background:"#f9f9f9",borderTop:"1px solid #f0f0f0"},children:(0,f.jsx)(o.A,{children:(0,f.jsx)(i.A,{children:(0,f.jsxs)(s.A,{lg:"10",xl:"9",children:[(0,f.jsx)("h2",{style:{fontFamily:l,fontWeight:700,fontSize:"clamp(1.5rem, 3vw, 2rem)",letterSpacing:"-0.02em",color:"#000",marginBottom:"0.75rem"},children:"Something we haven't answered?"}),(0,f.jsx)("p",{style:{fontFamily:l,fontSize:"1.05rem",lineHeight:1.6,color:"#555",marginBottom:"1.25rem",maxWidth:"640px"},children:"Ask the team \u2014 or request a sample Origin Enviro+ Report to see what EUDR evidence looks like."}),(0,f.jsx)("div",{style:{display:"flex",gap:"1rem",flexWrap:"wrap"},children:(0,f.jsx)("a",{href:"/contact-us-solution",style:{fontFamily:l,fontWeight:600,fontSize:"0.95rem",color:"#fff",background:d,borderRadius:"6px",padding:"0.75rem 1.75rem",textDecoration:"none"},children:"Talk to our team"})})]})})})})]})}}}]); 2//# sourceMappingURL=502.ac19f252.chunk.js.map
Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.