maps, concessions, permission agreements and others. Legal documents play a crucial role in the environmental traceability and ground - truthing process. Legality can also be agreed upon by verbal agreement in specific context s. For example, in Ghana , verbal agreements are recognized as contractual, if there are witnesses . This is the most common form of landownership available. Predominantly, sharecropping agreements are also verbal. Our approach address es the complexities of informal land agreements, provid ing administrative support to farmers to formalize verbal commitments into legally recognized documentation when relevant, thereby promoting greater transparency and security for all parties involved. Under EUDR, companies must provide evidence that cocoa is sourced from land that is managed in accordance with local laws, which includes land - ownership laws. In addition, both Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana have implemented policies which regulate the use of lan d for agriculture in some protected forested areas. It is therefore important to gather evidence of these permissions, in case farms are in these protected areas.
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Reintegration :
Reintegration refers to the process of re -adding a farm to the Tony’s Open Chain supply chain registry after it has been previously removed due to deforestation risk concerns. This process typically occurs once the farm has successfully completed deforestation remediation, demonstrating key performance indicators such as restoring targ eted areas from bare soil to a developing forest within the expected timeframe. In such cases, the farm will be remapped and reintegrated into the supply chain, provided that the updated map is deforestation -free. Additionally, reintegration can take place when discrepancies arise between T ony’s Open Chain ’s and its partners’ assessments of EUDR non -compliance. Following the reintegration protocol, all partners must agree that the farm should be reintegrated based on the methodology that provides the highest confidence in the compliance results, ensuring th e integrity and sustainability of the supply chain.
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