Category: Food Security
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A hungry man is an angry man
I came upon this notion that people who have food to eat are more reasonable, to a large extent. Maybe not 100%, but I do not know what else in this world is really 100% for sure. You know the saying: a hungry man is an angry man. In 2018, I think, or 2017, after…
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From Food Security to Food Sovereignty
Food security is about access. Food sovereignty is about control. Most food policy is built for the first and quietly assumes the second.
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The Forgotten Foundation. We will always need food.
Every civilization is built twice. First biologically, then economically. Food is the system that becomes invisible exactly when it works.
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Real Development
Poverty is an output of how systems are built, not a character flaw. Why real development means redesigning the conditions that keep producing it.
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On the relationship between Conflict and Food Security.
Investors ask how risky West Africa is. Almost nobody asks how exposed the alternative is. What the Black Sea disruption revealed about food security risk.
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Farmers do, what Farmers are. Farming.
Most agricultural projects start at the field and hope a market appears at harvest. Why supply-side optimisation plateaus, and what to design instead.
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An ecosystem problem that involves food; Food Security
West Africa grows more grain than ever and loses more of it than ever. Production is not the constraint. Food security is a systems problem.
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From selling aromatic herbs into the EU, to watching cash crops rot.
Committed European buyers, high margins, real contracts. Building infrastructure around a single deal nearly destroyed the operation. What I learned.