How Digital Traceability Is Rewiring the Amazon Bioeconomy
- Jul 23
- 2 min read
Thursday, 23rd July 2026
By Paula Perrelli dos Anjos
At first light in the Peruvian Amazon, collectors are already walking in the forest. Their routes are mapped, their tasks set, and their phones, offline but fully functional, are ready to log the day’s harvest. Copoazu, Amazonian nuts (Brazil nuts), and aguaje are now entering a supply chain built on evidence.
Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV) has signed a new traceability partnership with Pachamama, the Peruvian impact enterprise behind “Pacha Trace”. Supported by the UK PACT programme, the system is quietly reshaping how investors, buyers and regulators assess the Amazon Basin’s emerging bioeconomy.
Although the company is known for working already with the Aguaje value chain, this new partnership will establish traceability from the ground up to the Amazonian nuts value chain, creating the first fully documented of its kind to exist in the market.
“By digitising every critical step from forest to market, we are helping transform transparency into investability, compliance into competitiveness, and biodiversity into long-term shared value,” explained Pachamama's Co-founder and CEO, Victor Vera.
Despite rising demand for sustainable products, Amazonian supply chains remain vulnerable to patchy records, inconsistent oversight, and a long history of unverifiable claims. That is the gap AIV is closing.
“Together with UK PACT, we’re building an investable pathway for Amazonian products. Verified data, transparency and market access are essential. This will become a new standard of trust for value chains we support,” says Sergio Pancorbo, AIV’s Bioeconomy Value Chains Lead.
From Tree to Consumer
Pachamama’s platform tracks a product’s journey from forest to final buyer. It combines georeferenced evidence, identity verification and cryptographic integrity, creating records that cannot be altered once logged. Collectors must be formally invited and verified through Peru’s National Registry (RENIEC). They sign encrypted consent forms before entering the field, ensuring legal compliance and eliminating anonymous or child labour.
Using an offline‑first mobile app, collectors record every detail: GPS coordinates, photos, tree codes, harvest volumes. Mapping tools guide them along authorised routes, while Sentinel‑2 satellite imagery cross‑checks locations to confirm harvesting only in permitted zones. The system then moves through five checkpoints (product details, origin validation, sustainable harvesting techniques, governance protocols and community logistics) before any data becomes public.
At the end of the chain, consumers scan a QR code on the final product and access a digital passport for the forest. A landing page opens with an interactive map showing the exact trees harvested, the communities involved, the dates, the payments and the environmental footprint of that batch.
Pachamama’s model also delivers social value: 75% of its workforce are women, revenues are shared with partner communities, and the company has attracted USD 400K in pre‑seed investment. It also won Boston Consulting Group’s 2023 Peru Social Entrepreneur Award and was named among Peru’s “Companies that Transform” by IPAE and RPP.
The Essentials
Verified supply-chain participants through structured onboarding and controlled registration.
Georeferenced field evidence including GPS locations, photographs and harvesting records.
End-to-end lot traceability across the Aguaje, Brazil nut and Copoazú value chains.
Digital Product Passports providing transparent product information through QR-enabled access.
Basic social and environmental reporting supporting project monitoring and impact communication.
Offline-first field data collection designed for remote Amazonian operating environments.
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