Nadar is collaborating with PRONATEC to help them accurately assess the deforestation status of cacao farms in their supply chain and align with the EU Deforestation Regulation.

PRONATEC is a Swiss family-owned company and a pioneer in the organic and fair trade sector. For almost 50 years, it has been supplying certified, high-quality ingredients to the international food and cosmetics industries. Its product range includes cocoa beans, semi-finished cocoa products, chocolate, coatings, sugar, vanilla, and spices, sourced from small-scale farmers through long-standing partnerships with cooperatives in the countries of origin. PRONATEC focuses on full traceability and the combination of organic and fair trade standards.

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Providing Accurate Deforestation Insights for EUDR Compliance

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Through this collaboration, Nadar is providing PRONATEC with our end-to-end EUDR solution, supporting their efforts with:

• Data management and verification
• Quality control of geolocation data
• Plot-level deforestation checks and monitoring
• Seamless submission of due diligence statements to the EU Information System

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Precision Satellite Maps Minimize False Deforestation Alerts

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We focus on providing high-precision monitoring of deforestation risks across PRONATEC's cocoa sourcing regions in Africa and Latin America.

Tree crops as cacao are often misclassified as forest cover in public maps, e.g. the JRC Global Forest Cover 2020. Farm management activities such as pruning, cocoa regeneration, and rejuvenation can lead to false deforestation alerts.

With Nadar's proprietary forest maps, deforestation alerts across PRONATEC's supply chain are cross-checked to accurately identify natural forest areas and land use conversion under the EUDR, whilst ruling out false alerts.

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𝘕𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴. 𝘋𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 100% 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘰, 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺-𝘵𝘰-𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯-𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘜𝘋𝘙.

- Christoph Eisenbeiss, Certification Coordinator, PRONATEC

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Learn more about PRONATEC's EUDR strategy.