Complying with EUDR: Brazil launches digital tool to map coffee production areas

BRASILIA, March 2, 2026 — Brazil’s National Supply Company [CONAB] has introduced the Plataforma Parque Cafeeiro [Coffee Park Platform], a digital solution aimed at ensuring supply chain traceability and certifying that Brazilian coffee is produced in a deforestation-free manner. This comprehensive data management, planning, and monitoring system for the coffee sector enables real-time mapping of production areas, yields, technological profiles, and sustainability indicators.

The platform leverages official records to verify coffee production practices on lands deforested post-December 31, 2020. CONAB envisions this tool as providing essential, free support to farmers, cooperatives, and Brazilian companies in alignment with the European Union’s upcoming anti-deforestation regulation [EUDR].

The establishment of such a benchmark is seen as critical for maintaining the competitiveness of Brazilian coffee in international markets, as exporters will be able to demonstrate their compliance with the EU’s established cutoff date for deforestation.

CONAB President Edegar Pretto emphasised the importance of this initiative in sustaining access to the European common market, as the organization continuously seeks to enhance the quality of Brazilian products. The platform’s development was a collaborative effort involving the Federal University of Minas Gerais [UFMG] and various other agencies. Through this platform, not only can coffee growers issue a government-endorsed declaration certifying adherence to the zero-deforestation criteria, but other stakeholders in the coffee supply chain can also generate reports to confirm compliance to European importers.

A key feature of the platform is its integration of government and public databases, which are updated regularly through Application Programming Interfaces [APIs]. This interconnected data architecture allows for comprehensive national mapping of coffee-growing areas and links production sites to the EU’s zero-deforestation statutes, effective since the end of 2020.

Artificial intelligence plays a vital role in mapping coffee plantations, employing advanced methodologies like Convolutional Neural Networks [CNNs] which utilise three-dimensional information and machine learning to simulate visual processing akin to human perception.

By analysing high-resolution satellite imagery, the platform is equipped to identify both presently cultivated and developing crops over temporal spans of up to five years, incorporating variations in management practices and the cyclical nature of agronomy, also referred to as crop phenology.

Monitoring for deforestation is underpinned by data from the Project for Monitoring Deforestation in the Legal Amazon by Satellite [PRODES]. The platform includes checks to ensure that properties registered in the Rural Environmental Registry [CAR] have not cleared more than half a hectare since 2020 and verifies that none of the mapped areas encroach upon Indigenous lands, quilombo territories, or conservation zones.

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