How the Rainforest Alliance Deforestation Risk Assessment Tool Supports EUDR Compliance

You can access the Rainforest Alliance Deforestation Risk Assessment Tool through the MyRA platform at: my.ra.org. Once you make your profile in MyRA, you will be able to access our Deforestation Risk Asssessment Tool. The MyRA portal is a new user-friendly platform where we are hosting our EUDR Deforestation Risk Assessment Tool. In the future, more Rainforest Alliance tools and services will be available through MyRA.

Generally, anyone with legal access to or ownership of geodata of farm units with coffee and cocoa can use our Deforestation Risk Assessment Tool. Any stakeholder such as brands, retailers, traders, importers, exporters, private label manufacturers, as well as NGOs, government agencies, co-op agents and farmers are eligible to use the tool.

Note: Users from China will not be eligible to use the tool due to data sharing and privacy laws. In addition, users from countries on the OECD Sanction List will not be eligible to use the tool.

Our Deforestation Risk Assessment can be used to generate deforestation risk assessments for farm units containing coffee or cocoa.

The Rainforest Alliance Deforestation Risk Assessment tool provides supporting evidence for companies to conduct their risk assessment as required by the EUDR. When you submit geodata of coffee or cocoa farm plots to our Deforestation Risk Assessment Tool, you will be able to generate a risk assessment to support EUDR compliance.

No – the obligation to comply with EUDR rests solely with companies which the regulation applies to. Therefore, there is no guarantee of compliance with EUDR simply because an actor has used our Deforestation Risk Assessment Tool.

Our tool provides supporting evidence for EUDR compliance. There are other aspects of the law, such as assessing the legality of production, due diligence, and risk mitigation, which a company must do to be compliant with EUDR.

Users will be charged per hectare to use the Rainforest Alliance Deforestation Risk Assessment Tool. Users will receive an invoice at the email used to sign up for the service.

You can only submit GeoJSON files to our Deforestation Risk Assessment Tool.

You can submit as many farm plots as you would like, but the maximum file size to submit to the tool is 30mb. If you want to submit greater than 30mb of data, you will have to conduct multiple risk assessments.

The Rainforest Alliance Deforestation Risk Assessment Tool generates GeoJSON files, which is the format you need to use to submit supporting evidence to comply with the EUDR. The tool will also be able to generate PDF files to view the results of your risk assessment in a more user-friendly file type.

No. The Rainforest Alliance Deforestation Risk Assessment Tool is currently only available for coffee and cocoa.

Yes – your deforestation risk assessments will be stored indefinitely on our platform so you can access them for your EUDR compliance purposes.

The Rainforest Alliance bases our deforestation risk assessments on proprietary forest-layer data sets for Peru, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Indonesia. We use Copernicus forest layers for other countries, mapped against Global Forest Watch maps for tree cover loss. We use proprietary AI remote sensing forest data alongside other publicly available and government data sources to map deforestation risks.

The Rainforest Alliance uses the definition of forest established by the FAO, which is also used by the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR): “Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10%, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or other land use”.