The traditional community lands check is a Brazil local law check that OriginsNext runs for each farm on an Order. It compares the farm with the boundaries of quilombola territories (lands of traditional Afro-Brazilian communities) published by INCRA (Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária, Brazil's National Institute for Colonisation and Agrarian Reform), and saves the result as Evidence for that farm. OriginsNext reads a copy of INCRA's map layer published by Imagem Geosistemas. You set the check up through an Order's compliance requirements, using the template Local law compliance (farm), and start it from the Order's Compliance tab. This article explains how to set up the check, start it and read the results.
Note: The traditional community lands check needs the farm's boundary, or for a farm of 4 ha or less, its point. It checks farms in Brazil.
What the traditional community lands check looks for
The traditional community lands check looks for quilombola territories in the INCRA register that share land with the farm's boundary. Each territory that shares land with the farm is listed once, under Findings or Other matches, whatever the territory's stage:
Match | Where it is listed |
A quilombola territory that shares land with the farm | Findings |
A small edge overlap: shared land along the farm's edge that is only a small share of the farm (see below) | Other matches |
A small edge overlap is shared land along the farm's edge that is no more than 10% of a farm under 100 ha, 8% of a farm under 500 ha, 6% of a farm under 1,000 ha, 4% of a farm under 3,000 ha, or 2% of a larger farm. When the territory lies inside the farm, or the farm lies inside the territory, the match is always listed under Findings. Matches listed under Other matches do not count as findings. The card explains: "The following information is provided for additional context but does not affect the assessment outcome."
INCRA does not publish a boundary for every territory it is processing, so every result of this check shows the note "INCRA publishes a boundary for only part of the quilombola territories it is processing. No overlap means no overlap with a published boundary, not that no claim exists."
The territory's stage is shown in words: Technical report published (RTID), Recognition ordinance, Decree, Titled, Partly titled, Use concession (CCDRU), Title annulled, Identification under way or Stage not stated.
A farm recorded as 4 ha or less, with a latitude and longitude but no boundary, is checked at its point. A quilombola territory that the point falls in is listed under Findings. The result notes "Checked at the farm's point (4 ha or less), not a boundary.", shows no shared land or share of the farm, and the map shows a Farm point pin. A farm with neither a boundary nor such a point cannot be checked until a boundary is added.
Set up the check on an Order
To set up the traditional community lands check, add a supporting requirement that uses the template Local law compliance (farm) to an Evidence Template used on Orders, then add that Evidence Template to the Order's compliance requirements:
Go to Evidence Tracking > Templates and open the Evidence Template you use on the Order, or click + Add evidence template to create one.
In the Supporting evidence requirements table, click Add requirement. The Add supporting evidence requirement window opens.
Enter a Requirement name, for example Traditional community lands, and set Applied to to Location.
In Supporting evidence requirement, choose Local law compliance (farm).
Set Check against, for example to Ordered product locations, and in Location type choose the type you use for farms, for example Farm.
Under Modules required for compliance, tick Traditional community lands. You can tick other checks on the same requirement too, for example Indigenous lands.
Click Add requirement, then save the Evidence Template.
Open the Order, go to the Compliance tab and click Edit next to Order compliance requirements. In Evidence requirements, tick the Evidence Template and click Save.
For the other fields in the window, see How do I configure supporting requirements on an Evidence Template? For adding requirements to an Order, see How do I add compliance requirements to an Order?
Start the check
To start the traditional community lands check on an Order:
Open the Order and go to the Compliance tab.
Under Order compliance requirements, click the requirement. Its panel lists the Order's farms.
Click Start Traditional community lands assessment. If the requirement has more than one check ticked, the button reads Start assessment. One check runs for each farm, and its result is saved as Evidence for that farm.
The panel then sums up the checks, for example "4 of 4 locations checked · 1 with findings", and each farm's row shows its result, for example Findings identified. A farm with any finding is shown in red, even if other checks on it passed. Click View on a row to open the farm's result.
A farm with no boundary and no point that can be checked shows Boundary required on its row, next to the result of any other checks that ran, for example Boundary required · No findings. The requirement stays unmet until a boundary is added.
Read the result
Each farm's result is Evidence numbered with the prefix LAW-. In the evidence details, the check has its own card, Traditional community lands. The card shows its outcome first, such as Findings identified with the number of findings, and starts closed: click Show details to open it and Hide details to close it.
The card also shows Assessed location (the farm's name and ID), Requested by (the organisation that started the check, and its ID) and Assessment rule version. Click View rules to open the Assessment rules dialog, which explains in plain language the rules used for that version. If no description exists for the version, the card says "A rule description is unavailable for this assessment."
The details show:
The register edition the check used, on a line such as "Register: National Institute for Colonisation and Agrarian Reform (INCRA), edition 2026-06-01 via Imagem Geosistemas, fetched {date}", and the note "This result reflects the register edition shown above. It does not change when a newer edition is published."
Checked boundary: a map of the farm's boundary that was checked, with the shared land drawn on it as Shared land (finding) in red or Shared land (information) in amber, and Download boundary (GeoJSON).
Findings and Other matches: each matched territory, titled by its name and INCRA process number, for example "BURACÃO (54150.001532/2006-73)", with labelled fields such as Matched by (Farm boundary), Shared land, Share of farm, Kind (for example Small edge overlap), Stage, Municipality and State.
While the card is closed, each finding is summed up on one line with the territory, the shared land in hectares and the share of the farm, for example "BURACÃO (54150.001532/2006-73) · 183.43 ha · 36.57%".
A farm only shows the checks that ran there. A check that has not run at a farm yet says "This check has not run at this farm yet." If no copy of the register was available when the check ran, the result reads "Inconclusive: no copy of the register is available yet. Run the check again once it is."
Important: The traditional community lands check gives a screening result against the INCRA register edition shown. A finding is a screening result, not a legal finding, and how you use it in your due diligence is your decision.
For the other Brazil local law checks, see How do I check a farm in Brazil against indigenous lands?, How do I check a farm in Brazil for IBAMA environmental embargoes? and How do I check a farm in Brazil against the forced labour register? For what each status means, see What do the Evidence status labels mean?