Tropical rainforest fruit tags

Plantations in the tropics destroy rainforests. Poor farmers often burn down vast tracts of forest to monocrop; or they even sell their land to big agribiz, which does the same thing.

Now there are thousands of fruit species that have not been commercialized, but that might be very tasty.

The idea is to help small and often poor agro-foresters in the South create a sustainable way of harvesting luxury fruits. So that they make an income that doesn't force them to sell their land to plantation owners or big agribizz who want to expand.

RFID tags might do the trick. First the local people who know the forest well search for fruit bearing trees. They simply tag them and note down the basic info about the tree and the fruit. This info goes onto the website.

During the year, the foresters check back and take additional notes on the trees/fruits, so that a body of knowledge develops on yields, harvesting times, etc...

The tags will guide them trough the forest, so they don't lose too much time.

You as a grocery store or a supermarket can order the exotic luxury fruit and while doing so, you save a bit of rainforest.

Obviously, transporting the fruits produces CO2 which in the longterm may be detrimental to the global environment, but it might well be the case that more forest is saved with the fruit-tag system, than leaving things as they are today.