Our Senior New Voices Fellow, Dr. Cedric Habiyaremye, 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’t shake in a recent reflection on the research behind Bridging the Midstream Gap: Unlocking Capital and Infrastructure for U.S. Specialty Crop SMEs:
“We had the quality. We just didn’t have storage. We lost everything.”
He says, “Not margins. Not inventory. Everything. A season’s work. Stability. Hope.”
His reflection piece brings to life a critical but often overlooked part of our food system: the midstream — storage, aggregation, processing — where livelihoods quietly rise or fall.
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