Category: System Architecture & Value Chains
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How to incentivize in a farming organization.
An operator paid to run your asset follows the contract. An operator with equity protects its value. Why ownership beats contracts over a 30 year horizon.
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Derivative product revenue is the only honest framework.
Selling raw crops means the buyer sets the price. The difference between commodity revenue and derivative product revenue decides who captures the margin.
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Creating models that don’t become white elephants.
Economic corridors are security architecture, not development investment. What Saudi Arabia understood about food supply that most institutions still miss.
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Developing a system that actually closes the loop.
Fifteen years running operations in Ghana taught me the friction was structural. Why I stopped patching the system and started closing the loop.
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Why big farms and processors in West Africa can’t scale.
West Africa produces 187 million tonnes a year and under 8% reaches structured markets. The gap is not agricultural. It is infrastructural.