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Notes from the field and the office.

Farm operations, agricultural technology and what it takes to run a business that holds up, in Kenya and beyond.

• 14 November 2026 · 7 min readSomeone has to feed Kenya: why agriculture is the country's futureIn September 2026 Kenya signed for up to 540,000 tonnes of Zambian maize. More people, a shrinking stock of good farmland and a dry country make that deal a warning. They also make farming the most certain business in Kenya. Here is the case, with the numbers.
• 13 November 2026 · 7 min readFact Graph: what if your business ran on its own rules?Most businesses I've worked with keep their real rules in spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups and people's heads. Fact Graph writes those rules down and runs the business from them. Here is what it does, what it doesn't do yet, and why I think it matters for African businesses.