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UBTS Africa Agritech Digital Passport · UAA-DP 2.0

Putting science behind every premium lot.

UAA-DP is a continental programme designed to measure what is true about any agricultural product — from the soil it grew in to the buyer who receives it — and to carry that record, intact, to the moment of decision.

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Scientific and custody parameters in the protocol
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Crops covered in the current release
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Supply-chain actors, from input supplier to end buyer
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Building Blocks creating value along the chain

01The insight

Premium buyers do not pay for a location. They pay for measured quality.

For years the conversation about African agriculture has been about provenance — where a crop came from. A roaster pays for a cup score, a miller for maize within food-safety limits, a spinner for fibre length, a lender for a verified production history. UAA-DP 2.0 is built around that insight.

02UAA-DP at a glance

A science layer for agricultural trade.

What it is

A science layer for agricultural trade

The UAA-DP protocol records soil, input, crop-health, harvest, laboratory, custody and trade data for every plot and batch, so quality is measured rather than claimed.

Where it launches

Côte d’Ivoire first

UBTS Côte d’Ivoire SAS operates the Ivoire Agritech Digital Passport (IA-DP) as the francophone operational hub, then extends across West Africa and to anglophone markets.

How it earns

Paid for measured quality

Monitoring fees, data services and a share of the premium that buyers pay for passport-verified quality, closed through UBTS Trading Company.

What it will never do

Pay the farmer less

The producer never earns less than the baseline at delivery. UBTS never takes title to goods and never holds the buyer’s funds.

03The programme architecture

One protocol at the heart of every component.

ComponentRole
UAA-DP protocolThe DNA of the programme: the UAA-DP Generic Multi-Crop Supply Chain Schema, applied along the whole value chain of every crop.
Building Blocks 1–4Land Valorization through high science, the Contributing Experts Community, Carbon Footprint and Environmental Consolidation.
UBTS Trading CompanyBuilding Block 5: ethical and intelligent trading on the Premium segment, matching buyers to lots whose quality the protocol has measured.
UBTS AcademyThe talent engine: trains, places and hires the agronomists, inspectors and technicians the protocol relies on.
Country instancesIA-DP in Côte d’Ivoire (launch and hub) and CA-DP in Cameroon (historical starting point, later launch), followed by the continental pipeline.

04The problem worth solving

Every premium buyer needs measured values about a specific plot and batch.

Across most African smallholder supply chains, the measurements premium buyers pay for are either not taken or not kept with the lot. The value of African quality is lost before it reaches the buyer.

Specialty roaster

Pays for a cup score, not a story.

Quality attributes must be measured at origin and carried with the lot.

Flour miller

Needs maize within the EU aflatoxin limit.

4.0 µg/kg total for direct human consumption.

Spinner

Pays for fibre length and micronaire.

Fibre quality is the price, not the provenance.

Lender

Wants yield history and crop health.

Before it advances money to a farmer.

Brand

Needs farm-level land-emissions data.

The GHG Protocol’s Land Sector and Removals Standard applies from 1 January 2027.

All of them

Need the same thing.

Measured values about a specific plot and batch, produced by someone accountable, and carried intact to the moment of decision — whatever the crop.

05Governments are building the foundations

UAA-DP plugs into national systems — and adds the science.

Côte d’Ivoire launched a national coffee-cocoa traceability system on 12 June 2026 and made its producer card mandatory on 1 September 2026, with producer registration, farm geolocation and digital payment. In Cameroon, the ONCC renewed its farm-mapping and geospatial-monitoring partnership on 10 September 2026 for three years.

National systems register producers and map farms. UAA-DP plugs into them as a standalone, transparent, plug-and-play service through open APIs, links each record to the national producer identifier, and adds what they do not provide: the science of quality, attested by accountable professionals and carried through to the premium buyer.

  1. 01Soil and field science
  2. 02Crop health, attested by agronomists
  3. 03Harvest and laboratory results
  4. 04Custody and trade events
  5. 05Linked to the national producer ID

06Every agricultural product

Built for every crop — twelve already in the protocol.

UAA-DP is built for every agricultural product — cereals, roots and tubers, legumes, fibres and tree crops — not only cocoa and coffee.

Crop familyCrops in the current protocol releaseTypical quality science
Food staplesCassava, maize, yam, sorghum, sweet potato, riceMoisture, mycotoxins, cyanide, grain quality, milled-rice grade
LegumesGroundnutAflatoxins, moisture, grading
FibresCottonFibre length, micronaire, lint percentage
Tree cropsCocoa, coffee, cashew, oil palmBean count, fermentation, cup score, ochratoxin A, fat content

New crops are added by extending the crop-specific fields of the protocol, not by rebuilding it. The marginal cost of adding a crop — or a country — falls with each deployment, while the value of a single, interoperable standard rises for buyers, lenders and regulators.

07Why breadth is also our launch path

Free-market crops are the natural first premium trades.

In Côte d’Ivoire, four major export crops trade under administered systems: cocoa and coffee (farmgate prices of 1,200 and 1,300 FCFA/kg for the 2026-27 main crop, announced on 1 September 2026), cashew (400 FCFA/kg for 2026) and cotton. Oil palm prices follow an interprofessional mechanism. Food crops and other free-market products trade without an administered route.

Launch logic: free-market crops — such as cassava, maize, rice, yam, plantain and fruit — are the natural first premium trades, while UBTS agrees premium routes for the administered crops through approved exporters and with each regulator.

08The DNA: the UAA-DP protocol

The Generic Multi-Crop Supply Chain Schema turns each plot and batch into a scientific record.

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parameters in the v1.1 Production Release
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parameters apply to any one crop
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required at their stage of the chain

The protocol’s reference values track current EU and Codex limits — for example the EU maximum level for ochratoxin A in roasted coffee, 3.0 µg/kg — and plots of 4 hectares or more are mapped as polygons. Every actor adds science to the record, and every actor gets something back.

09Multidimensional value

Every actor adds science to the record — and gets something back.

ActorScience added to the recordValue the actor receives
Input supplierCertified seed lot, phytosanitary certificate, fertiliser and pesticide batchesProof its inputs reached, and performed on, identified plots
Farmer / fieldSoil pH, moisture, N/P/K, organic matter, salinity; irrigation; field diarySoil diagnostics, yield forecasts and a production history lenders can read
Agronomist / inspectorGrowth stage, crop-health score, disease incidence, yield forecastA paid attestation role — often an Academy graduate
Harvest / aggregatorYield, rejects, dry matter, moisture, fermentation, bean count, batch IDBatches graded before they are sold
ProcessorLaboratory results: mycotoxins, cyanide, cup score, fat content, fibre qualityReliable intake quality; output that keeps its passport
LogisticsPer-leg custody, temperature and humidityProof of condition in transit
Exporter / customsPhytosanitary, origin and quality certificates; EUDR due-diligence statement referenceCompliance documents from one record
Buyer / retailerReceived weight, QC grade, recall flag; the receipt seals the passportA quality gate before purchase and a recall trail after it

10Land Valorization means high science

Raising the value of what the land produces, by measuring it scientifically.

Land Valorization is the orchestration of high science — soil science, agronomy, plant pathology, post-harvest and laboratory analytics — across every actor in the chain. It raises the value of what the land produces by measuring it scientifically, plot by plot and batch by batch, and carrying the measurement to the buyer. It has nothing to do with land ownership.

11The protocol roadmap

From the v1.1 Production Release to v1.2.

ReleaseScope
v1.1 — Production Release12 crops including cashew and oil palm; reference values aligned with current EU contaminant limits, Codex thresholds and EUDR scope; polygon geolocation for plots of 4 ha or more.
v1.2 — next releaseSource, method and timestamp on every measured value; footprint and forest-check result fields for Building Blocks 3 and 4; an explicit national producer ID field, such as the Ivorian producer card number.

12The five Building Blocks

Five Building Blocks reinforce one value chain.

Measure the science, have it attested by accountable experts, add footprint and environmental evidence, and sell the result to buyers who pay for it.

#Building BlockWhat it addsWho pays
1Land Valorization — high scienceThe protocol itself, pre-funded by UBTS and financed by the per-kg monitoring fee.Growers; premium buyers, whose premium includes the protocol data; other buyers of the data
2Contributing Experts CommunityIndependent agronomists and technicians who perform attestations, sampling and inspections, paid per accepted deliverable.Certified producer groups (inspection services)
3Carbon FootprintPlot-level emissions data for buyers reporting land emissions from 2027. Disclosure first; credits later, only through an accredited developer.Buyers and brands
4Environmental ConsolidationForest baseline, loss alerts, water and biodiversity context for each plot.Buyers and exporters
5Ethical & Intelligent Premium TradingUBTS Trading Company matches premium buyers to lots whose quality the protocol has measured.Buyers, through a premium shared on terms set per transaction

13Inside the Building Blocks

How each block creates value.

Building Block 1

Land Valorization

The protocol creates multidimensional value from a single record: soil diagnostics and yield forecasts for the farmer, a paid attestation role for the agronomist, intake quality for the processor, compliance documents for the exporter, production evidence for the lender, and a quality gate and recall trail for the premium buyer. Protocol data is part of the premium for the transacting buyer and can afterwards be made available to other interested buyers, in line with personal-data law.

Building Block 2

Contributing Experts Community

A distributed network of local agronomists, extension workers and technical specialists extends UAA-DP’s reach far beyond what a payroll could support. Contributors are independent professionals with their own schedules, tools and clients, paid per verified deliverable.

  • Inspection firewall: a contributor who attests or inspects a lot is never paid on that lot’s premium.
  • Data ownership: contributor-generated data belongs to the contributor until UBTS pays for it and takes the transfer.
  • Quality control: UBTS controls the deliverable standard, not the person, and re-audits a share of attestations.

Building Block 3

Carbon Footprint

The GHG Protocol’s Land Sector and Removals Standard, published on 30 January 2026, takes effect on 1 January 2027. UAA-DP computes plot-level footprint data from protocol fields and supplies it to buyers for their scope 3 reporting — a disclosure service that requires no carbon credit to be issued. Credits remain a later option, only through an accredited developer and only after host-country authorisation.

Building Block 4

Environmental Consolidation

A plot-level environmental profile attached to each passport, built largely from public datasets: an EUDR-aligned forest baseline, tree-cover loss alerts, and soil, water and biodiversity context. It serves buyers’ private standards and land accounting as well as regulatory due diligence, so its value does not depend on any single regulation.

14The value chain: four movements

Four movements — each lowers the acquisition cost of the next.

MovementWhat happensWhat the protocol adds
1 · Upstream implementationThe passport is issued against the crop at origin — with industrial farmers, cooperatives and state farming regulatorsInput, soil and agronomist science; links to national producer IDs
2 · Metadata availabilityPassport data becomes discoverable to buyers of raw crops and manufactured goodsHarvest and laboratory quality; footprint and environment
3 · Persistence through transformationThe tag survives processing; a finished product resolves to its sourcing plotThe processor section carries an output product ID that continues the passport chain
4 · Transaction closureMatchmaking closes the sale on verified goodsUBTS Trading Company, priced on measured quality

The compounding logic: more measured lots attract more premium buyers. More buyers raise the premiums that reach farmers. Premiums fund the science. Deeper data de-risks lenders, and lending grows production. Once seeded in a value chain, the passport tends to become its standard.

15Why this is not a compliance play

Regulation is a tailwind. Science is the product.

30 Dec 2026
EUDR applies to large and medium operators (30 June 2027 for micro and small)
1 Jan 2027
GHG Protocol Land Sector and Removals Standard takes effect
1 Sep 2026
Côte d’Ivoire producer card mandatory for coffee and cocoa

EUDR covers only a handful of commodities, and national systems are supplying basic traceability for free to producers — so traceability alone will not command a premium for long. UAA-DP’s case rests on measured quality across every crop, which premium buyers already trade on, plus farm-level land-emissions data from 2027.

Carbon: disclosure first. Credits only later, through an accredited developer and after host-country authorisation.

16Commitments we will not trade away

Trust is designed in, not added on.

01

The producer never earns less

than the baseline at delivery.

02

Every value names its source

Sensor, laboratory or agronomist, and when. UBTS reports measurements; accredited laboratories certify food safety.

03

Honest carbon

UBTS supplies footprint data; it does not sell carbon claims it cannot stand behind.

04

No title, no funds

UBTS never takes title to goods or holds the buyer’s funds.

05

Independent contributors

Paid for accepted work, independent in fact, and never paid on the premium of a lot they attested.

06

Data with respect

Data shared after a transaction respects personal-data law; identifying fields are removed or lawfully processed.

17Where we stand

September 2026 — and the next twelve months.

AreaStage — September 2026
ProtocolSchema v1.1 Production Release: 238 parameters, 12 crops, 8 actors. Deployment begins with the Côte d’Ivoire launch.
Launch countryUBTS Côte d’Ivoire SAS designated as launch entity and francophone hub (IA-DP).
Market mappingDesk research on regulation and markets completed for Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and the continental standards the protocol relies on.
TradingFree-market crops in Côte d’Ivoire identified as the first premium trades; administered-crop routes to be agreed with regulators.
AcademyProgramme defined; partner institution selection is the next step.
CameroonHistorical starting point and experimentation field; CA-DP launches after the Ivorian launch.

18Priorities for the next twelve months

Let’s put science behind every premium lot — together.

  1. 01

    Côte d’Ivoire launch map

    First crops, regulators, and the brokerage perimeter for UBTS Côte d’Ivoire SAS.

  2. 02

    Premium-buyer programme

    Structured interviews and first commitments, crop by crop.

  3. 03

    UBTS Academy

    First partner institutions, revenue-share terms and an internship plan across the chain.

  4. 04

    Protocol v1.2

    Per-value source and timestamp, footprint and forest-check fields, national producer ID.

  5. 05

    Science partners

    Accredited laboratories, sensor providers and agronomist attestation capacity.

  6. 06

    National systems

    API interface terms with the national coffee-cocoa traceability system.

The right conversation now is about the protocol, the launch sequence, and the evidence that will prove premium demand crop by crop.

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