The Vineyard Sunday evening my wife and I were deciding things to do while we were in Portugal. We thought to ourselves, let’s go see some ruins, castle, and all the historic sites. Going to a vineyard was an after thought because we thought they were all closed on Sundays, but there was one that stuck […]
What began as a conversation about beekeeping revealed a much larger shift in global agricultural trade. Oh, Honey! I was talking to my father a few years back and in true boomer fashion, he asked if I could help him find a beekeeper suit on Amazon. I didn’t even bother asking why. I already knew […]
Inside West Africa’s informal cocoa and coffee routes, where markets, borders, and survival economics collide. The Quiet Routes: Inside West Africa’s Hidden Trade From the farm to the roadside in Kano, where the cocoa is quietly loaded at dusk, packed tightly into worn sacks that don’t draw attention. To the roadside near Seme Border, […]
Rethinking who defines value in a market built far from where coffee begins. My Price Is Not Your Price It’s right after harvest season, and you make your way to your favorite coffee farmer. Except this time, something feels different. You tell yourself you want to pay fairly. And there’s comfort in that thought, […]
Born in the Rainforest WAFI started in 2019 when I was working in the commodity markets at a trading firm in New York. I watched how much these firms and traders were making despite never seeing any of the commodities they were actually trading. I do not blame them. When […]