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Drawing on five decades of work across more than 35 countries, Benny explains why conventional economic thinking so often fails to reflect life in the poorest communities.

Climate pressure, soil exhaustion, water scarcity and unequal markets are reshaping food production. The future depends on practical choices made with farmers, not for them.

The language of saving Africa places outsiders at the centre. What changes when communities define the problem, lead the response and decide what progress means?

Reparations raise profound questions about history, wealth and responsibility. This article considers what meaningful repair could look like beyond symbolism and political rhetoric.

Trillions have been spent in the name of development, yet poverty and hunger persist. The question is not whether the world has given enough, but how the system uses what it gives.

A major report may acknowledge global poverty while relying on familiar assumptions. Benny asks whether respected institutions are diagnosing the system or simply repeating it.

Drought is not only a natural disaster. Its effects are shaped by weak infrastructure, fragile livelihoods and policies that leave farmers without the means to adapt.

Smallholder farmers produce much of Africa’s food, yet they remain among those most exposed to hunger, unstable markets and weak agricultural investment. What would development look like if it began with them?

Vast sums have been committed to ending poverty, but outcomes remain painfully limited. Following the money reveals who controls it, where it is absorbed and who is overlooked.

Decades after famine shocked the world, hunger remains widespread. Benny asks what the international response has learned and why the same failures keep returning.