We’ve grown accustomed to talking about unemployment as if it’s a traffic light we’re waiting to change colour. But something deeper and more hazardous...
In Accra, Kumasi, Tamale and even the smallest communities across Ghana, you’ll find markets that never sleep and side hustles that never end. From...
There is quiet gold beneath our feet. Yet, I can’t find plantain to buy, and it frustrates me. Some time ago, watermelon was also...
“Garbage in, garbage out.” But in today’s digitised economy, that phrase underestimates the problem. Dirty data is more than a nuisance. It’s a silent...
Tomatoes from Burkina Faso, onions from Mali, rice from Vietnam, frozen chicken from Brazil. Ghanaian markets are flooded with food imports that, on paper,...
Every few years, a new administration in Ghana rolls out an agricultural masterplan with its own slogans, logos, and targets. We’ve had “Operation Feed...
You can learn a lot about people by analysing, for instance, how they eat. Not just what they choose, but when they order, how...
Feeding Ghana today feels like walking a tightrope during a storm. Everything, from prices to weather to supply, is unpredictable. I should know; I’m...
When discussing food security in Africa, we often picture rural areas facing failed rains, subsistence farms, and struggling smallholders. However, the crisis is increasingly...
When people think of African exports, they often picture crude oil tankers, containers of cocoa beans, or bundles of raw cotton. What is missing...