Illustrative example
What EUDR-readiness looks like for a Uganda coffee exporter
This is a worked, illustrative example based on AVN Earth's actual mapping and verification process in Mubende, Uganda — not a named, completed client engagement. It's here to make the four-step process concrete: this is what it looks like for an exporter roughly this size, doing this today.
This is an illustrative scenario, not a verified case study. AVN Earth's Uganda origin is live with first farms enrolling now; the exporter profile below is a composite, not a real named business. We'll replace this page with a genuine, named or anonymised result as soon as we have one to publish.
The profile
A mid-sized Arabica and Robusta exporter based in the Mubende region, moving roughly 40 MT of green coffee a year to EU roasters, sourcing from a network of smallholder farms across several parishes. Before working with AVN Earth, the exporter's deforestation-free claims were asserted at cooperative level — typical for the region, but not enough to satisfy an EU buyer's EUDR due diligence once the deadline tightened.
The problem
EUDR is enforced at the plot, not the cooperative. A cooperative-level attestation can't show which individual farms cleared the December 2020 deforestation cut-off and which didn't — so an EU buyer has no way to accept some lots and reject others. Without plot-level evidence, the exporter's entire volume is treated as a single, undifferentiated risk.
What the process looks like
01 · Map
A field technician visits each contributing farm and GPS-maps the plot boundary in person, recording producer identity at the same time.
02 · Verify
Each mapped plot is checked against the EU deforestation-free baseline. Plots that don't clear the cut-off are flagged and excluded before the lot is finalised, rather than discovered later at the EU border.
03 · Access
Every verified record lands in the exporter's AVN Earth dashboard, searchable by plot, lot, producer or shipment, so their team (and their buyer) can see status at a glance.
04 · Report
A Due Diligence Statement is generated per lot, with GeoJSON files and supporting evidence ready to hand to the buyer or file with TRACES NT directly.
The outcome this is designed to produce
Instead of one blanket cooperative-level claim, the exporter can hand a buyer a lot-by-lot Due Diligence Statement: which plots are clean, which volume they cover, and machine-readable evidence behind each one. That's the difference between "we believe our coffee is deforestation-free" and "here is the plot data that proves it" — the distinction EU buyers are increasingly asking for before they'll sign 2027 contracts.
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