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New: Sentinel Index™, Issue 1: The Orchard and the Mine
The Orchard and the Mine
Sentinel Index, Issue No. 1. Satellites show mined land in Ghana now borders the cocoa farms. Every number is linked to a public source, so you can check it yourself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Extreme Missions: going where most people avoid
Washed-out roads, landslides, flooded crossings, no power or signal. Cut-off farming areas are often the last places help reaches. Extreme Missions is how our teams get there, with a written objective, a trained team, and a plan to come home.
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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. Our first hub is in the design phase.
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Women of the Harvest: first stories
They’ve always run the farm. Now they run the conversation. Their voices, their stories, in their own words.
Farmer to Farmer
No middlemen, no lectures, just growers teaching growers: drying, storage, selling, and saving.
Cashews: what the paperwork doesn’t show
Cashews are checked closely for food safety, and those checks protect the people who eat them. They aren’t built to show where a nut was grown, what the land was before, or what the farmer was paid. Cashew is also outside the EU’s deforestation rule, a question of scope, not a clean bill of health and not a charge against any supplier. We’ll walk through those gaps, plainly.