This Deep Context expands on our recent Intelligence Brief by examining the system beneath Africa’s blue food push. The focus here is not opportunity size, but structure…
U.S. specialty crop losses are not mainly a consumer waste problem. They reflect a structural capital gap in the infrastructure between farm and market. The midstream is aging, underfinanced, while farm-level expansion continues without corresponding investment in storage and processing.
What looks like growing momentum around Africa’s blue food sector is better understood as a coordination problem coming into focus. Capital, policy intent, and physical infrastructure are beginning to move in the same direction but not yet at the same speed…
The Signal What appears to be renewed interest in Africa's blue food sector is, in fact, a shift toward policy-led coordination of protein infrastructure. Ghana is emerging as an early test case for whether institutional design can outpace production capacity and whether frameworks can absorb capital before scale
Climate finance for agrifood systems remains limited not because risk or need is unclear, but because funding frameworks favor policy processes and large programs over the physical and commercial layers where resilience is built, reinforcing a persistent structural allocation problem...