Tag: Infrastructure
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Storage. The right entry point for the Corridor creation.
I watched grain rot in a Volta warehouse. If you are building an agricultural corridor, you do not start with the farm. You start with storage.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.