A farmer can help supply a billion-dollar industry and still return home unable to feed his own family.

That is not only a pricing problem. It is the price of invisibility.

Across Africa, farmers, cooperatives, founders, artisans, and entire communities create extraordinary value. Yet many remain invisible to the buyers, financiers, policymakers, investors, and consumers who determine how that value is recognized and rewarded.

In this episode of The World’s Mayor Experience, Joshua T. Berglan explores what invisibility costs a farmer, a cooperative, a village, a nation, and an entire continent.

The episode examines how undocumented work weakens negotiating power, limits financing, separates producers from customers, and allows others to control the story, the relationship, and the price.

It also explores the role of  ...