Why Markets Fail Farmers

The farmer feeds the market. The market does not feed the farmer. This imbalance is not accidental. It is structural. […]

Smallholders as Economic Actors

The smallholder does not wait for the government to feed the nation. She has been feeding it, quietly and without

The field does not receive the policy. It receives the consequence of the policy, and the two are rarely the

“The farm does not lie. It returns exactly what was given to it, including the consequences of what was withheld.”

The statesman’s highest ambition is not to govern well. It is to build institutions that govern well after he is

Nigeria does not have a food problem. It has a policy problem that food is paying the price for.

A nation that cannot feed itself has already surrendered a portion of its sovereignty, not at a border crossing, but

The distance between the policy document and the farmer’s field is not measured in kilometres. It is measured in the

The moment of genuine governance is not when the government sees the problem. It is when seeing the problem becomes

The government that can diagnose without prescribing has mastered the grammar of governance while remaining illiterate in its purpose.