The Unquestions Series — Thomas George

Why poverty persists for smallholders
and the clarity that changes what follows

Seeing past the logic-bound impasse of economic development—
to clear the ground the layered “Questions” have kept from view.

Each Unquestion displaces a Question or more accumulated over decades, bringing into view the ground that was always there.

It is in the record: in a national economy, maize farmers reached science's potential within two decades—not because technology changed, but because income stayed visible long enough to matter.

Thomas George began as a smallholder. Over three decades as an agricultural officer, agronomist, researcher, entrepreneur, and scholar, he has watched development models and digital tools come and go—and traced what they missed in the record. About the Unquestion Series →

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