Building transparency and collaboration in land use Leo Bottrill - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Building transparency and collaboration in land use Leo Bottrill Founder and Director Moabi and MapHubs

Contents • Brief introduction to Moabi • Challenges to transparency in the logging and agriculture sector • MapHubs • Case study of Socfin’s Brabanta concession • Benefits and near terms goals

What is Moabi? Strengthen natural resource governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Logging Roads Agriculture

Challenges to transparency and agriculture monitoring - technical Proprietary systems (e.g., ArcGIS) Difficult to use Internet access Inaccurate forest alerts

Boteka oil palm plantation, Equateur Province DRC

Challenges to commodity monitoring - institutional • Certified vs non-certified • Scale • Fragmented systems

What is MapHubs software makes beautiful maps for your website and social media • Data management • Map publishing Built with OpenStreetMap and Mapbox GL 100% Open source/ArcGIS compatible

Pro • Non-profit • For-profit • Global database • Private cloud mapping • Data management or server installation • OpenStreetMap • Integration with Map • Photo upload for Environment and • Map publishing third party Companies, forest Everyone, small NGOs, monitors, regulators, researchers, journalists government agencies

Case Study – Socfin’s Brabanta

Brabanta in OpenStreetMap

Benefits 1. Level information playing field 2. Efficient safeguard monitoring and third party auditing 3. More accurate forest alerts 4. Integration between zero deforestation commitments, REDD+, FLEGT, other sectors 5. Lower costs

Near term Goals 1. Map all industrial agriculture concessions in DRC using OpenStreetMap 2. All companies publish plantation and concession maps 3. Build a more accurate alert system 4. Conduct independent observer missions

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Pro Maphubs.com Mapforenvironment.org Leo Bottrill leo@moabi.org