Bridging the Divide: Integrating Fragmented Supply Chains in Global Commodity Sectors
Too often, we leave the smallest producers out of the biggest conversations, and then wonder why systems fail. In the highlands of Latin America, a coffee grower harvests her beans without access to drying equipment or direct buyers. In West Africa, a smallholder cocoa farmer sells through four layers of intermediaries before his crop reaches […]
From Shadows to Spotlight: Formalizing Informal Markets in Global Commodity Sectors
In many countries, informal economic activity accounts for more than half of all employment, and nearly all of the risk. Walk through any mining town or rural trading post in the global South, and you’ll see the beating heart of the informal economy: women hauling produce without permits, youth selling minerals by weight on mobile […]