{"id":3173,"date":"2026-02-20T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=3173"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:57:59","slug":"to-lose-everything","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/to-lose-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it really mean to lose everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Our Senior New Voices Fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/our_fellows\/cedric-habiyaremye\/\">Dr. Cedric Habiyaremye<\/a>, a globally recognized food security strategist, crop scientist, entrepreneur, and author whose life and work bridge science, policy, and human resilience, shares a line he couldn\u2019t shake in a recent reflection on <i>the research behind<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsfinstitute.net\/publications\/bridging-the-midstream-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Bridging the Midstream Gap: Unlocking Capital and Infrastructure for U.S. Specialty Crop SMEs<\/b><\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>\u201cWe had the quality. We just didn\u2019t have storage. We lost everything.\u201d<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He says, \u201cNot margins. Not inventory. <i>Everything.<\/i> A season\u2019s work. Stability. Hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">His reflection piece brings to life a critical but often overlooked part of our food system: the midstream \u2014 storage, aggregation, processing \u2014 where livelihoods quietly rise or fall.<\/p>\n<p>Read more below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3174,"template":"","publication_category":[170],"publication_theme":[87,44,151,70,58],"class_list":["post-3173","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","featured-featured","featured-featured-bottom","publication_category-reflections","publication_theme-agriculture","publication_theme-climate","publication_theme-environment","publication_theme-food-security","publication_theme-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/3173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}