Why now?

Because agricultural claims are being converted from assertions into audited assertions, and that conversion is happening from several directions at once: disclosure regimes, lending conditions and supply-chain commitments.

The consequence is that the bottleneck moves from producing claims to relying on them. That is a verification problem, not a software problem, and nothing in the current stack solves it.

Timing is the contested variable, not direction. Enforcement dates have slipped before. The thesis assumes the direction holds and treats the date as a risk.