Latest thinking
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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.