Cocoa sold into the EU must be shown deforestation-free
Free EUDR check for cocoa
Whether your beans come from Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Ecuador or Cameroon, map a cocoa farm, drop a GPS point, or upload the KML/GeoJSON of collected plots. In seconds you'll see whether the land shows deforestation since 2020 — and whether the coordinates are in the shape the EU expects. No signup. No GIS skills needed.
The EU Deforestation Regulation means that from 30 December 2026, cocoa sold into Europe has to be proven to come from land that wasn't cleared of forest after 31 December 2020 — and the proof starts with where the farm is. That's why plot coordinates are now part of every EU filing. This page checks that a plot passes, before it goes in. Try it with a plot →
What EUDR asks for
A location for every farm — and a clean deforestation check
Under the EUDR, the company that first sells cocoa into the EU has to record where each production plot is and show the land wasn't deforested after 2020. That request flows down to origin, so importers are already asking cooperatives and exporters for farm coordinates. How much detail depends on the plot's size:
Small farm — one point
4 hectares or less can be a single GPS point (WGS-84, at least 6 decimals). Most cocoa farms qualify.
Larger farm — a boundary
Over 4 hectares needs a polygon tracing the plot's outline. The tool draws it for you.
What the free check gives you
A plain answer you can act on — and keep on file
Deforestation screen
Checks the plot against the 2020 cutoff on annual satellite forest-loss data plus near-real-time clearing alerts — the core EUDR question, answered.
Format check
Catches the coordinate mistakes that get filings bounced — wrong precision, swapped lat/long, a mislabelled plot — across a whole batch of farms.
A summary to keep
Download a clear one-page result, with the sources it used — the evidence a buyer or auditor will ask to see.
Three steps
How the cocoa plot check works
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Find the plots
Tap on the map, search a place or GPS point, or upload the KML/GeoJSON collected from farmers.
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It checks two things
Deforestation since 2020, and whether each location is in the format the EU expects.
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Read the answer
A plain result — clear, or needs a closer look — plus a summary you can save.
Cocoa & the EUDR
Thousands of small farms, one consignment to get right
Cocoa is overwhelmingly a smallholder crop. The great bulk of the world's beans come from Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, grown on family farms that mostly sit under the 4-hectare line — so under the EUDR each one can be described as a single point rather than a full polygon boundary. That sounds simple, but the numbers are not: a co-operative or licensed buying company may be collecting GPS points for tens of thousands of farmers, and it's those aggregators — not the individual grower — who assemble the geolocation and hand it up the chain to the exporter and the EU operator.
The catch is that a single EU consignment aggregates hundreds of plots into one Due Diligence Statement. If just one plot is malformed or mislabelled — swapped lat/long, too few decimals, a point that lands in a deforestation-flagged patch — it can hold up or reject the whole set. The more farmers behind a shipment, the more places a bad coordinate can hide. Chains that already run a farm-traceability programme, mapping and coding plots at origin, start well ahead here; the work is checking that record, not building it from scratch.
This page is the spot check for that reality. Screen one plot against the same satellite record an EU filing will face — annual forest-loss data plus near-real-time clearing alerts, on the 31 December 2020 cutoff — or format-check a whole file of collected farm points before it goes near TRACES. It reads the same way whether the beans are Ivorian, Ghanaian, Ecuadorian or Cameroonian. Screening the full consignment, generating the DDS-ready GeoJSON and keeping the five-year record is the operator workflow, not the free tool.
When one plot isn't enough
From a free spot check to standing EUDR evidence
The check on this page is free, forever. When you're filing at consignment scale — DDS-ready GeoJSON for TRACES, a five-year audit trail, continuous re-screening — that's the operator workflow behind it. Tell us what you're filing and we'll take it from there.
Common questions
Cocoa EUDR questions, answered plainly
Does Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance certification mean I'm covered?
Not on its own. Certification can support your risk assessment, but the EUDR has no certification safe-harbour — the operator must still collect plot coordinates, run the deforestation and legality checks, and file the statement. The legal responsibility stays with the operator.
A point or a boundary for a smallholder farm?
Plots of 4 hectares or under can be a single point; over 4 hectares needs a polygon boundary. Coordinates must be WGS-84 (EPSG:4326) with at least six decimal places. This tool checks the rule against each plot's area automatically.
We aggregate from many farmers — how does that work?
Each production plot in the consignment needs its own geolocation. They're submitted as a set, and a single malformed plot can cause the whole file to be rejected — so validating before filing is worth the minute it takes.
Is a clear result an official compliance approval?
No. It's a screening signal with the sources it used shown in full — not a certification, legal opinion, guarantee, or a signed statement. The legality assessment and your own risk assessment stay separate obligations.
EB TERRA — proudly Malaysian, working directly with producers. We read a plot the way the grower does — so the evidence you file holds up, in every origin you source.
Screening evidence produced by the documented EB TERRA — EUDR method. This is not a certification, legal opinion, guarantee, or a signed DDS. A "clear" result is a machine signal on the listed sources, not a compliance verdict; the legality assessment (Art. 10) and the operator's risk assessment remain separate obligations. EB TERRA — EUDR evidence packages