Tag: Thesis
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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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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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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.