Narrow food margins mean narrow profit margins. Narrow profit margins correlate with narrow excess supply margins. Narrow excess supply margins fail to supply the demand. The demand begins to turn to the available under-the-table or black markets.

Two Armed Forces Generals battle in the streets of Old Khartoum for control of Sudan. Update

Grain and cowpeas underlie the Trade Transport Crossroads of Niger.

When basic foodstuffs in hardscrabble nations diminishes political and armed conflict increase and medical and arms trafficking advance their cause.

Nomadic pastoralists in regional stabilization and conflict. Tracking&tracing supply and demand through networks cross-referenced with existing market and trade.

What to look for and where to find a viable ratline.

Niger legitimate markets as practical consideration for trans-border illicit trade at a trade crossroads example

People eat food and food motivates people: maximizing minimal resources regionally

Stable government and economic markets establish and maintain the political structures that effectively extend medical efficacy, in medical products, technology, personnel, services, supply lines and healthcare pharmaceuticals. Those stable governments&economic markets are not easy to establish or maintain in already demoralized, devalued populations living frugally in harsh conditions.

Cost effective measures include cost cutting measures in devalued market systems providing regional market economies in impoverished nations in the Sahel and in the African continent.