Built on standards others already trust.

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• Built and tested2

  Working in FaWCOS today, with tests or documents behind it.

• In progress8

  Partly built. What remains is stated in each row.

• Planned15

  Designed, not built yet. We will not describe these as met until they are.

• Watching5

  Moving standards and policies we track before building against them.

Our rule: we say FaWCOS meets a standard only when it is built and tested. Everything else is designed to align or working towards.

• NIST SP 800-63 and eIDAS levels of assurance

  How confident an identity or record check is

  Identity, Land and Activity are each levelled 0 to 3 from field evidence, with tiers from Registered to Audited. The rules are covered by automated tests.

• FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure (VGGT), ISO 19152 (LADM), STDM

  Recording land rights, including customary tenure

  Every walked boundary records how the land is held (customary, family, leased, sharecropped, communal and more) and who holds the right.

• Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and GAID 2025

  Consent, data subject rights and protection of personal data

  Consent records, append-only access logs and protected national ID handling are built. A data protection impact assessment and registration with the NDPC are under way.

• NIN verification through a licensed provider

  A farmer’s legal identity

  Built: lookup, the farmer confirms it is them, and one account per NIN. The raw NIN is never stored on phones. Being switched on for the pilot.

• W3C Verifiable Credentials 2.0

  Portable, signed proof that others can check

  Field evidence is already signed on the phone. Issuing attestations as verifiable credentials is being built.

• FaWCOS Verification Standard v0.1

  Our own rules for levels, evidence, audits and governance

  Drafted, and the rules engine implements it. To be calibrated with pilot data before version 1.0.

• EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)

  Plot location data for commodities exported to the EU

  Farm boundaries are walked and measured. An export in the EU due-diligence format and a deforestation cut-off check are planned.

• UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP)

  Digital product passports and traceability credentials

  Built on the same credential basis as FaWCOS attestations. A passport per produce lot comes after attestations.

• CAADP Kampala Declaration (2026 to 2035)

  Africa’s agri-food targets for the decade

  Verified farmer and land data supports its monitoring. Mapping FaWCOS outputs to its indicators is next.

• UN Sustainable Development Goals

  Targets 1.4, 2.3, 2.4, 5.a, 8.10, 13.2, 15.1, 16.9 and 17.18

  Identity (16.9), land tenure (1.4, 5.a) and verified production (2.3) are captured. A full impact map is being written.

• National Digital Farmers Registry (FMAFS)

  Nigeria’s national farmer identity

  Designed to link through a protected NIN reference, subject to agreement with the Registry.

• DCI Farmer Registry Standards

  Registry data and interoperability

  Our data model is close; a published field mapping is next.

• ISEAL Code of Good Practice

  Credibility of verification systems

  Impartiality is built in: organisations cannot clear flags on their own farmers. Independent governance is planned.

• ISO/IEC 17029 and ISO 19011

  Verification and audit practice

  Audit records exist. A written audit procedure and auditor training are planned.

• IPCC 2006 Guidelines and 2019 Refinement

  How farm emissions are estimated

  Capturing the practice detail emission estimates need, such as fertiliser, tillage and residue burning.

• GHG Protocol Land Sector and Removals Standard

  Land emissions in buyers’ supply chains

  Verified parcels provide the traceability it asks for; a supplier-level report is planned.

• IFRS S2

  Climate disclosure by listed companies and banks

  A portfolio and supplier emissions report is planned.

• ISO 14064

  Greenhouse gas calculation and verification

  Report formats will follow it.

• GS1 identifiers (GLN, GTIN)

  Unique codes for farms, sites and produce lots

  Farms and parcels have internal identifiers; GS1 codes are planned.

• GS1 EPCIS 2.0

  Harvest, aggregation and shipment events

  Harvests are recorded; an event log in EPCIS form is planned.

• ISO 22095, ISO 22005 and Codex CXG 60-2006

  Chain of custody and food traceability

  A custody model per buyer programme is planned.

• AfCFTA rules of origin and SPS annex

  Proving African origin and plant health for trade

  Verified farm-level origin exists; an origin evidence pack is planned.

• AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol

  Electronic trade documents and data flows

  Open formats are used throughout so records can move across borders.

• NAQS, SON and NAFDAC requirements

  Nigerian export and quality clearance

  Mapping which records each certificate needs.

• Standards Organisation of Nigeria, then ARSO

  Route to a national, then continental, standard

  After the pilot, version 1.0 of the Verification Standard will be proposed.

• Verra VM0042 and Gold Standard soil carbon

  Carbon credits from improved land management

  FaWCOS would supply verified farm data to a project developer. We do not promise farmers carbon income.

• Paris Agreement Article 6.4

  The UN crediting mechanism

  Tracking agriculture methodologies as they are approved.

• Nigeria National Carbon Market Framework

  National authorisation of carbon credits

  Tracking how agricultural data sources will be recognised.

• GLOBALG.A.P., Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade

  Certification buyers already require

  FaWCOS is designed to supply data to these schemes, not to replace them.

• AU Data Policy Framework and Malabo Convention

  Cross-border data norms in Africa

  To be reviewed before any deployment outside Nigeria.