Harvest Sentinel Alliance

Fairness is won or lost in the first mile.

We’re already there, at the point of harvest before the farm gate.

The Farmer, The Family, The Community, The Alliance. One purpose. The Harvest!

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Harvest

The crop, and the people who grow it. Everything we do starts with them.

Sentinel

We monitor and measure the success and improved quality of life in the farming community.

Alliance

Farmers, families, communities, and partners, working as one team.

Four branches. One fight: make farming pay.

Everything we do fits under one of these. Nothing else.

HSA Farm & Community Forums

Thank a Farmer, Farmer to Farmer, and Women of the Harvest. The people who feed you have names. Here, we say them.

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HSA Disaster Response

When disaster hits, we respond. Trained HSA teams help farms and communities recover, with the hard work of disaster response: clearing, repairing, supplying, and rebuilding.

Extreme Missions: when it’s too hard for anyone else. Our special operations teams take on the toughest, highest-risk recovery missions.

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HSA & the First Mile

If you can’t see it at the farm gate, you can’t trust it on the store shelf. OrchardRadius extends visibility all the way to the point of harvest, with a forensic wall that keeps the record honest. It’s ready when we go live, and HSA is its first user.

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Chain Breaker Eco Hub Operations

“Break the chains that anchor the farmer to poverty.” Community-owned HSA outposts for primary education, farmer training, microfinance, harvest processing and drying, and mobile money distribution, managed and run by the Village Chief or Elders.

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Why it matters

The hands that grow our food deserve a living wage. We all care about the people who grow what we eat. When they don’t earn a living wage, we aren’t getting what we pay for, and they are left with few choices.

Harvest oppression hides in plain sight, in the very first steps where a crop is grown, weighed, and sold. We don’t look away.

"Watch over the harvest. Improve quality of life."

Latest issue

Sentinel Index · Issue No. 1 · November 2026

The Orchard and the Mine

Satellites show mined land in Ghana now borders the cocoa farms.

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About sixfold

Ghana's mined land grew from 15,445 hectares in 2015 to 97,910 hectares in 2025. That counts all mined land, not only land that was once farmed.

Source: Addo-Fordjour et al., PLOS One, Sep 3, 2026

30,000 hectares

Cocoa farms destroyed nationwide as of December 2024, from small-scale mining, timber felling and sand mining together.

Source: Ghana Cocoa Board chief executive, via Ghana News Agency, Feb 27, 2025

72%

Share of the 203.7 hectares our screen flagged in Amansie West that sits outside any publicly listed license as of Nov 2, 2026. HSA estimate, unverified on the ground.

Source: HSA Sentinel Eye screen, checked against the Ghana Minerals Commission public mining repository

From the field: straight reports, no spin.

Why the first mile matters

A crop’s story starts where it’s grown, weighed, and sold, long before it reaches a store shelf. That’s where harvest oppression hides in plain sight, and it’s where we keep watch. If you can’t see it at the farm gate, you can’t trust it on the shelf.

Thank a Farmer Month

Every meal you ate today started with somebody who was up before the sun. Through November 28, we’re asking you to do one simple thing: thank a farmer. Shake a hand at the market, write a note, buy from the folks who grow it.

How we respond when disaster hits farms

Floods, storms and drought don’t just damage fields. They wipe out the next harvest and the income a family lives on. We watch, we support from a distance, we assess the damage, and we help restore the tools, water and farm work a family depends on.

Demand an end to forced labor in our food supply.

Stand with the people who feed you. Follow our work, share a story, or partner with us.