Keep the country in the market.

Evidence you can put on the table.

Not a survey, an estimate or a model. Each line counts records that exist, made by producers on their own land.

The difference between the two dashed lines is not technology. It is whether the unions in four regions have a funded field agent.

• 01None foundForest loss since 2020Imagery compared against the 31 December 2020 cut-off, plot by plot, and rechecked every harvest rather than once at registration.
• 02No overlapProtected and indigenous landBoundaries checked against protected and indigenous land registers, with the source and date each check used.
• 03340 openNetwork-wideOverlapping and duplicate claimsTwo walks over the same ground surface immediately, across every organisation rather than inside one. Tracebud does not adjudicate them: they go to the parties and to your land office.
• 04Over by 8%Documents and capacityDeclared volume is checked against what the land can physically produce, which is how outside volume stops being laundered through your export figures.

What it is actually for

Counted in households, not in lines of product.

Compliance is the reason the money arrives. Inclusion is the reason the programme is worth running. Because every producer is registered individually and every delivery is receipted, both are measured the same way: by counting, not by sampling.

• 512,000Households insideEach one registered individually by their own cooperative, not counted as part of an estate.
• 41%Registered to womenVisible because registration is per producer, so it can be targeted rather than assumed.
• 78%Plots under two hectaresThe share of the programme that a documentation shortcut would have excluded first.
• 1.4MDigital receipts issuedWeight and price on each, signed by both sides, which turns income from a study into a sum.

Figures shown are from an illustrative programme in its second season, not a specific country. What matters is that each one is a count of records rather than an estimate, so it can be repeated next season and compared.

€0for producers, in all three cases— and €0 for your oversight seat

• 01BuyersThe brands that buy from youThey carry the legal exposure, and losing your origin costs them their product. Sponsoring the unions they buy from is cheaper than switching country.Billed toThe buyer
• 02DonorsThe programmes already funding your rural sectorA donor or development bank funds a region and holds its own plan. Reportable in hectares and households, rather than in workshops.Billed toThe donor
• 03The ministryYou, if you want the programme yourselfOversight stays free either way. Funding readiness is a Country programme on custom, sales-led terms, sized to the coverage you fund.Billed toYou, on custom terms

Whoever funds it, the records outlive the reason they were made. Carbon, regenerative practice, living income and certification all start from known farms and known deliveries, so a programme funded once is not rebuilt for the next commitment.

Household identity documents are seen by nobody but the producer and whoever they grant. Producers and cooperatives may hold their records elsewhere as well: nothing here is exclusive, and nothing is conditional on staying.

What the classification costs you.

Your country’s risk category sets how hard it is to buy from you. It is reviewed, it can change, and the review reads evidence.

• 9% / 3% / 1%Checks by risk categoryThe minimum share of operators authorities must check each year for high, standard and low risk origins. It is a direct measure of how expensive you are to buy from.
• SimplifiedWhat low risk buys your exportersOperators buying from a low risk country run simplified due diligence. Geolocation and a statement are still required.
• The smallholderWho is dropped firstWhen documentation is hard, buyers consolidate onto estates. That is a rural income problem long before it is a trade statistic.

The benchmarking system sits in Article 29 of the EUDR; the first country list was published in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1093 of 22 May 2025, with a review foreseen on updated data, so classifications can change. Low risk brings simplified due diligence for operators buying from you, but geolocation and a statement are still required in every category. Tracebud is not the register that decides any of this. It is where the evidence lives.