Meridia - Netherlands, Ghana, Indonesia, Côte d’Ivoire

Meridia is a SaaS (Software as a Service) provider that utilizes GIS (geographic information system) technology to facilitate land mapping and land rights documentation. Established in 2015 in The Netherlands, the company provides its services to agribusinesses to map their commodity supply chains, making them more transparent, while eliminating environmental and social risks such as deforestation and forced/child labor, and to drive land security for smallholder farmers in developing countries. The CFC is providing working capital financing to bridge the long payment cycles from the signature of contracts to final payment after delivery of services. The loan repayment will be based on the cash flow from Meridia’s service agreements contracts with about 13 global food and beverage companies like Unilever, Cargill, Mondelez among others. To date, Meridia has mapped over 100,000 land parcels, provided legal land documentation to over 10,000 farmers, and registered over 50,000 shade trees in Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Indonesia. Meridia has about 160 employees, of whom 65 are full-time employees and 95 are freelance contractors.

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