Fit For Purpose Land Titling

Small-scale farmers need proof of their land rights.

The goal of the land titling solution is to give smallholder farmers affordable land titles on a large scale by working with the largest food companies, traders, and governments in the world. Meridia’s solution gives smallholder farmers formal land rights documents that put them on the path to a better income, independence, and the freedom to take care of their farmland. Land mapping and titling also give companies solid information about the value chain and traceability down to the farm level. This protects the companies’ reputations from things like deforestation and improves the return on investment for programs that help farmers be more productive. Families who live off the land in places like Ghana and Indonesia can get the land documents they need when everyone works together. These families are smallholder farmers. They are the ones who grow rice, coffee, cocoa, palm oil, and tea, which are used to feed the world. Not only do these farmers grow our food, but they are also the first ones to protect the world’s forests because they often live in or near the rainforests, which are important for keeping biodiversity and fighting climate change. With a land document, these farmers can put money into their land and their kids’ futures.

Positive facts about Fit For Purpose Land Titling

Total duration of process to get a land title can decrease from 12 months to 6 weeks with Meridias proprietary software and technology,
Number of errors in collecting geo-spatial data is reduced by at least 25% using Meridias software and data cleaning processes,
About 20 % reduction in land use expansion
About 5 641 880 tonnes of CO2e emissions avoided (estimated for a case study of 47 000 cocoa farms)
In Ghana, cocoa farmers in company productivity programs had a 21,9% higher productivity rate and a 15,5% higher income if they had a land title
On cocoa farms in Ghana, diseases were reported on 30.7 percent of farms with ownership against 48.8 percent without ownership