Preserve the Crop, Create the Market: Rethinking Agricultural Value in Africa

Every tomato season, the cycle repeats. Markets are flooded, prices crash, and smallholder farmers scramble to offload their fresh produce before it rots in crates or worse, never leaves the farm. A small portion of these tomatoes reaches urban centres like Nairobi. The rest are wasted. Ironically, while farms overflow with fresh produce, supermarket shelves […]

Co-authored with Ambassador Professor Bitange Ndemo as part of a series on Value Chain Productivity and Innovation

Too Realistic for Disruption, Too Commercial for Impact: What Happens to Innovation in the Middle

In looking for benchmarks across the sustainable fibre to fashion value chain for one of our programs, we started to notice something interesting: There are quite a few case studies notably from Europe showcasing supposedly cutting-edge solutions like “smart fashion”, “wearable tech”, “sensor-driven fabrics” and “circular traceability systems”. When stripping these solutions down to their […]