What looks like a shortage of climate finance for agrifood systems is better understood as a misalignment problem. Funding continues to flow toward plans and large projects, while the parts of food systems that build resilience: storage, logistics, and small enterprises, remain underfinanced...
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.
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…
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