Platform

OriginTrace

Farmer and plot registration, agronomic monitoring and provenance for coffee, built for the first mile.

OriginTrace is Sysmera’s field-data platform. Enumerators register farmers and walk plot boundaries on offline-first Android devices; agronomists score Good Agricultural Practice on every visit; cooperatives and associations get a clean register, plot geometry and delivery records that prove origin to buyers and regulators. In production with CIRAD-supported cooperatives since 2025.

How it works

  1. 1

    Register

    Farmer identity, consent, household and plot data, GPS boundary walks, photos, all offline.

  2. 2

    Monitor

    Good Agricultural Practice scoring across twelve criteria per visit, production and delivery tracking.

  3. 3

    Prove

    Provenance records linking every delivery to farmer and plot; exports for EU Deforestation Regulation due diligence and geographical-indication control.

Capabilities

  • Offline-first Android app for enumerators
  • Web console for cooperative and programme managers
  • Plot GPS audits and data-quality dashboards
  • Payment and delivery tracking
  • Register exports and API for exporters and certifiers
  • Multilingual interface

Deployments

Rwanda, Lake Kivu coffee GI

CIRAD, COOPAC, Lake Kivu GI Association

8,105 farmers, 9 cooperatives, 13 washing stations, 11,348 plots, 99.9% valid GPS; monitoring live since June 2026.

Ethiopia, Jimma zone

CIRAD

11,000+ farmers and 13,600 plots by 36 enumerators, target 22,000.

Uganda, Rwenzori GI

Rwenzori GI Association, CIRAD

In preparation.

EUDR timing

Under the EU Deforestation Regulation as revised in December 2025, large and medium operators must comply from 30 December 2026 and small and micro operators from 30 June 2027 (Regulation (EU) 2025/2650). OriginTrace exports plot geometry and farmer records in the form due-diligence statements require.

Data protection and hosting

Personal data collected with consent and processed under the Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019 and partner-country law; dedicated hosting with daily backups and offsite copies; data-processing agreements with programme owners.

Adjacent crops. The same registration and plot model applies to tea, cocoa, macadamia and other smallholder crops.

See OriginTrace in a real cooperative.