Peru is the world's fourth largest organic cocoa exporter and one of Latin America's fastest-growing specialty coffee producers. The European Union is the primary market for both: absorbing 45–60% of Peru's processed cocoa exports and 30% of its coffee.
EUDR directly threatens this market access. If Peruvian exporters cannot prove their cocoa and coffee come from parcels not deforested after December 31, 2020, European importers will be unable to place those products on the EU market.
The specific challenge of Peruvian cocoa and coffee
- Atomised supply base: 95% of producers are smallholders with less than 5 hectares. An exporter may have 3,000–10,000 active suppliers.
- No historical geolocation: most producers have never georeferenced their plots. In remote rural areas, property boundaries are informal.
- Overlap with post-2020 deforestation zones: some cocoa expansion areas in the VRAEM and Loreto show recent deforestation linked to coca crop substitution.
- Multi-tier supply chains: cocoa and coffee pass through multiple intermediaries before export, complicating parcel-level traceability.
Step 1: Map and geolocate your producer portfolio
This is the most costly and critical step. For each producer you need: polygon of the cocoa or coffee production parcel (>4 ha) or GPS coordinate (<4 ha), producer identity, total parcel area in hectares, estimated production per season.
Practical mass geolocation strategies:
- Field technicians with offline GPS apps during agronomic visits
- Self-reporting with satellite image validation for cooperative leaders
- Remote digitisation of parcel polygons from Sentinel-2 or Planet imagery
- SERFOR/COFOPRI rural cadastre data where available
Step 2: Historical forest cover analysis per parcel
Once you have parcel polygons, you need to determine whether each was forested before January 1, 2021 and whether it was subsequently deforested. Analysis uses Global Forest Watch / Hansen GFC (30m, free), MapBiomas Amazonia (30m, free), and Sentinel-2 (10m) for high-resolution verification.
The result is a traffic-light per parcel: 🟢 Green (eligible), 🟡 Yellow (verify with higher resolution), 🔴 Red (ineligible — forested Dec 31 2020 and deforested after).
Step 3: Lot-level traceability
Even with all parcels geolocated and analysed, if you cannot trace which cocoa from which parcel is in which export lot, the analysis is insufficient for the DDS. Required elements:
- Per-producer purchase records: quantity, date, collection centre
- Physical segregation: keep eligible and ineligible lots separate through fermentation, drying, and sorting
- Transformation tracking: which origin parcels composed each grain lot that was processed
- Export lot number traceable back to origin parcels
How Terralyr accelerates the process
- Offline field app for capturing producer polygons and data without connectivity
- Automatic EUDR analysis per parcel with traffic-light risk scoring
- Producer onboarding portal for self-submission of geolocation data
- Lot-level traceability linking purchase records to origin parcels
- Evidence package export for the European importer (GeoJSON, analysis report, certificates)
☕ Terralyr — For Cocoa and Coffee Exporters
Mass producer geolocation, per-parcel EUDR analysis, lot-to-parcel traceability, and evidence package export for the European importer. Designed for cooperatives and companies with thousands of smallholder producers.