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Agri Finance
Analysis
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Global Commodities
Sweet and Sour: Why Record Cocoa Prices Left West Africa With a Bitter Aftertaste
The 2024 cocoa boom briefly sent prices above $12,000 per tonne. Yet the farmers producing most of the world’s cocoa saw little of the windfall.
Agri Finance
Analysis
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Credit Markets
Why the farmers that feed the nation are still kept out of formal credit markets
Smallholders remain central to food production, yet formal credit still struggles to recognise the rights, records and assets they actually hold.
Economics
Analysis
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Global Trade
The Economics of Coffee: Competition, Espionage and Value Extraction
From Yemen’s monopoly to modern global trade — where coffee lost control and who captures value today.