Behind everyday food and commodity markets lie unequal relationships between producers, traders and consumers. The true cost is often carried by producers and communities with the least bargaining power.
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.
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?
Decades after famine shocked the world, hunger remains widespread. Benny asks what the international response has learned and why the same failures keep returning.
