EUDR traceability software for Cameroonian exporters

The EU Deforestation Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 or EUDR, covers cocoa, coffee, wood, rubber, oil palm, soya and cattle, and many products made from them. To be placed on the EU market or exported from it, these products must be deforestation-free, meaning not produced on land deforested after the regulation’s cut-off date of 31 December 2020; they must be produced in line with the laws of the country of production; and they must be covered by a due diligence statement.

That statement is filed by the company placing the goods on the EU market, but it rests on data only the supply chain in Cameroon holds: the geolocation of every plot, who supplied what, and which lots went into which shipment. European buyers are therefore asking Cameroonian cooperatives, traders and exporters for that data. The application dates have been postponed before and the rules for different company sizes have been adjusted, so check the current application date and requirements on official EU sources before planning. Software does not make anyone compliant; it collects and organises the data due diligence needs.

Cocoa comes mostly from smallholdings in the Centre, South, South-West and East regions; coffee from the West and North-West highlands and the Moungo; rubber and palm oil from agro-industrial estates and the smallholders around them in the Littoral, South-West and South. A single farmer may work several scattered plots, produce often passes through pisteurs and middlemen before reaching a cooperative or exporter, and most buying centres have no reliable network.

The software follows that reality. Field agents map plots offline, deliveries are tied to mapped plots at the buying point, mapped and unmapped produce stay separate, and each lot leaving a warehouse in Douala or heading for Kribi carries its list of plots. For timber, the same principle extends the log chain of custody described on our timber company software page.

We build on modules already in use: Opes Agri for the farmer registry, buying and lots, described on our agriculture cooperative software page; the Supply Chain suite for warehouses and dispatch; our Mobile Money integration to pay farmers by MTN MoMo or Orange Money; and CEMAC Books for SYSCOHADA accounts. We first agree with you and your buyers which data fields and formats they expect, run a mapping pilot in one buying zone, then roll out zone by zone.