Climate-resilient supply chains for essential foods for low-income communities
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Kenya, Africa
WS04623
Future shocks may affect several producing regions simultaneously, making traditional diversification insufficient. The challenge is combining storage, alternative crops, trade rules, logistics, and social protection without creating waste or market distortion. The solution must work with limited capital, intermittent services, and local maintenance capacity. The research opportunity is to define measurable success criteria, test the approach in realistic settings, identify failure modes, and create a pathway from prototype to accountable deployment.