Tag: Capital
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Most Agro Industrial Parks Fail… what can be done about it?
Agro-industrial parks get announced, funded, celebrated, then run at 40% capacity. After fifteen years I stopped assuming each failure was unique.