Meridia initiative

Developed by an agritech startup, Meridia Land B.V., Meridia is a digital initiative which provides land mapping and documentation services to smallholder farmers and agribusinesses. For smallholder farmers, these documents paves the way for access to credit and their land titles and other details etc. For agribusinesses, geospatial and identity data helps to better understand farmer partners and thus channel services that are uniquely impactful and highly valued. Meridia was founded in 2015 (then called Landmapp) with the intent to provide affordable land documentation to the people who need it the most, families living off land in places like Indonesia, Ghana and Malawi. These families are smallholder farmers, the very ones producing the worlds food, such as rice, coffee, cocoa, palm oil etc. The initiative specializes in bringing together local communities, policy makers, food companies and NGO’s to put ideas into action.It works with governments and traditional authorities to ensure strict compliance with regulation and practice. Meridia delivers land mapping and land titling at scale, fast and with accurate data. They collaborate with a large number of global food companies, multilateral organisations and donors to provide affordable mapping and land titling at massive scale.

Lead (category)

Private enterprise (Agritech startup)

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

Meridia Land B.V.

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Rural Services

Digital Agriculture

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

The initiative brings together local communities, policy makers, food companies and NGO’s to put ideas into action.It works with governments and traditional authorities to ensure strict compliance with regulation and practice.

Business and governance structure

Being implemented by a private enterprise/ agritech startup.

DI ICT-deliverables format

Interactive data exchanges

Satellite imagery

Web-based platform

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

General public/rural areas populations

Government

Agribusiness / private organization

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

All over Indonesia

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

Other useful link

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution