13/11/23 - In this Financial Times article, Meridia emphasised the significance of the new EU deforestation regulation in reducing carbon emissions from the supply chains of key commodities and protecting biodiversity. We believe companies can achieve compliance within the stipulated timeline by taking immediate steps to improve their data quality.
15/9/23 - The EU has banned imports of commodities produced on newly deforested land, posing a challenge for the coffee industry. Meridia is partnering with Intercontinental Exchange to help coffee farms trace their supplies for compliance.
22/9/23 - Meridia is partnering with ICE Benchmark Administration Limited, to launch the ICE Commodity Traceability (ICE CoT) service
14/9/23 - ICE set to launch Traceability Service, in partnership with Meridia, to ready cocoa sector for EU Deforestation Regulation compliance
4/10/23 - The Côte d’Ivoire Land Partnership (CLAP), managed by Meridia, successfully secures land rights for cocoa farmers and promotes agricultural development.
19/7/23 - How formal land ownership improves the financial outlook for smallholders in Cote d’Ivoire through the Côte d’Ivoire Land Partnership (CLAP), managed by Meridia.
4/7/23 - Meridia Verify as a response to the challenges faced by companies in achieving high-quality farm and farmer-level data.
External Research Reports
Research reports of external companies and organisations that feature Meridia
The state of nature tech: Building confidence in a growing market (2023)
The report highlights how Meridia Survey produces high-quality, compliant data in a simple and low-cost way, enabling farmers to secure their land - leading to more replanting, rehabilitation and sustainable agriculture.
Africa AgriFoodTech Investment Report 2023
Read more about what we believe are the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries across Africa today and how we hope to help solve them.
The report highlights some of Meridia's work in data collection in Indonesia and Ghana and how its technology and reliable field data are critical for compliance and the possibility of receiving land rights.
Fintech for Climate Resilience (2023)
The report highlights how Meridia Survey produces high-quality, compliant data in a simple and low-cost way, enabling farmers to secure their land - leading to more replanting, rehabilitation and sustainable agriculture.
Farmer-centric data governance: Towards a new paradigm (2023)
As increasingly larger volumes of farmer data are collected, the report argues that farmers need better access, use and ownership of their data to improve their livelihoods. Data needs to be governed in a farmer-centric way. It highlights how Meridia, as part of several large consortiums, has taken up important data stewardship activities to secure land rights and tackle issues related to agroforestry for cocoa farmers and cooperatives in West Africa and Indonesia - data models that are also needed for companies sourcing from smallholder heavy supply chains to comply with the EU Due Diligence Regulation on deforestation.
CASE STUDY: A Multi-centric Data Governance Approach to Secure Land for Cocoa Farmers (2023)
Data needs to be governed in a farmer-centric way. It highlights how Meridia, as part of several large consortiums, has taken up important data stewardship activities to secure land rights and tackle issues related to agroforestry for cocoa farmers and cooperatives in West Africa and Indonesia - data models that are also needed for companies sourcing from smallholder heavy supply chains to comply with the EU Due Diligence Regulation on deforestation.
Frontier Technologies for Securing Tenure: A review of concepts, uses and challenges (2023)
The report showcases the frontier technologies used in land tenure documentation and the associated benefits and challenges. Olivier Vernin was interviewed about Meridia's data collection technology and how reliable field data is critical for compliance and the possibility of receiving land rights.