Fragmented farmer data
Farmer identities, farm polygons and evidence are repeatedly collected by different actors.
Digital infrastructure for trusted cocoa supply chains
Know the farmer.
Know the farm.
Trace the cocoa.
CocoaTrust creates a trusted first-mile record connecting farmers, mapped farms, compliance evidence and physical cocoa deliveries.
It gives programmes, cooperatives and downstream partners the visibility they need to trace cocoa back to its origin and prepare reliable evidence for regulatory and sustainability requirements.
Designed for smallholder cocoa supply chains in West Africa — starting with Nigeria and Ghana.
The problem
Cocoa supply chains still lose visibility at the first mile.
A single cocoa farmer may be registered, surveyed and mapped repeatedly by NGOs, cooperatives, traders, certification schemes and government programmes.
Yet the information is often fragmented across spreadsheets, applications and closed systems.
When cocoa is delivered and aggregated, it becomes increasingly difficult to answer basic questions reliably:
- Who produced it?
- Which farm did it come from?
- Is the farm mapped?
- What evidence exists?
- Where did the cocoa go?
Broken traceability
Physical cocoa moves through the supply chain while origin information is often separated from the commodity.
Growing compliance burden
EUDR and other requirements require more reliable geolocation, provenance and supporting evidence.
The CocoaTrust approach
One trusted record from farm to market.
CocoaTrust connects information collected in the field with the physical movement of cocoa.
Each participating farmer and farm has a persistent Cocoa Passport containing the information, provenance and evidence needed to support downstream due diligence.
Information is captured once, maintained with provenance, and shared only through authorised workflows.
- 01
Farmer - 02
Mapped farm - 03
Cocoa Passport - 04
Delivery - 05
Lot - 06
Secure Data Collection
Programme visibility
See what is happening across the programme.
CocoaTrust turns field activity into programme-level visibility.
Managers can see which farmers are registered, which farms are mapped, where information is incomplete, which records require review, and how much cocoa is entering the traceable supply chain.
Programme workspaceSynthetic demonstration
Farmer recordsRegistration progress
Mapped farmsBoundary coverage
Review queueEvidence & follow-up
Traceable cocoaRecorded deliveries
Operational views use the records authorised for the selected programme.
Physical traceability
Follow cocoa back to the farm it came from.
CocoaTrust links physical cocoa deliveries to the farmer and mapped farm that produced them.
As cocoa is aggregated, split, moved and received, the system preserves its recorded origin and custody history.
From a lot, CocoaTrust can trace backwards to contributing deliveries, farmers, farms and historic farm boundaries. From a farm, it can trace forward to the deliveries and downstream lots that contain its cocoa.
FarmDeliveryLotMovementFacility
Evidence & readiness
Build the evidence needed for downstream due diligence.
CocoaTrust structures first-mile information to support regulatory and sustainability due diligence. For EUDR, this includes farm geolocation, production information, supplier provenance, evidence records and deforestation-assessment status.
CocoaTrust shows what information exists, what is missing and what requires human review — without presenting itself as a legal certification authority.
Geolocation
Persistent farm polygons with mapping provenance and boundary history.
Evidence
Documents, field observations and reviewer decisions linked to the relevant farmer or farm.
Readiness
Clear status showing missing information, evidence requirements and reassessment needs.
The Cocoa Passport
The reusable first-mile record.
A Cocoa Passport brings together the farmer, mapped farms, production information, consent, evidence, compliance assessments and downstream traceability in one durable record.
Instead of recreating the same information for each programme or buyer, authorised systems can work from the same underlying record.
Capture once. Maintain provenance. Use through authorised workflows.
View the workspace demonstrationCTSynthetic demonstrationReady for assessment
Cocoa Passport
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CT-NG-F-000001 · Ondo- Farm boundary
- 1 mapped farm
- Evidence
- 1 synthetic record
- Traceability
- 145 kg recorded
Interoperability
Built to connect — not replace.
CocoaTrust is not intended to replace national traceability systems, certification platforms or buyer systems.
It is designed as a neutral implementation and interoperability layer that helps field programmes collect, maintain and exchange high-quality first-mile data.
Nigeria
Designed for a more distributed value chain where programmes, cooperatives and aggregators need consistent farmer, farm and traceability records.
Ghana
Designed to complement national traceability infrastructure and support programme-level data collection and interoperability.
Field ready
Built for the places where cocoa is actually produced.
Field work cannot depend on perfect connectivity.
CocoaTrust is mobile-first and supports offline capture of farmer registration, consent, farms, boundaries and deliveries.
Records synchronise safely when connectivity returns.
For implementation partners
Turn existing cocoa programmes into trusted digital infrastructure.
NGOs and implementation partners bring farmer relationships, field teams and value-chain expertise. CocoaTrust provides the digital infrastructure for structured records, traceability, evidence and interoperability.