Two years ago Sammy Takyi stood in a two-hectare plot in Begoro and considered cutting down everything he had planted. He was tired. Anyone would be.
Altro...
Two years ago Sammy Takyi stood in a two-hectare plot in Begoro and considered cutting down everything he had planted. He was tired. Anyone would be.
Altro...Two years ago Sammy Takyi stood in a two-hectare plot in Begoro and considered cutting down everything he had planted. He was tired. Anyone would be.
He didn't. He's still growing cocoa under plantain shade, still waiting out the four-to-five-year gap before a tree pays anything at all, still turning down the miners' cash at his fence line — while a bag of his beans lost about US$88 of its value. His family processes what they can into chocolate and spices themselves.
That's what value-capture looks like when nobody helps you do it. Not courage exactly. A willingness to keep doing the slow correct thing in front of an audience trained to find slowness boring.
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