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One hundred thousand tons of peanuts.
From land the world wrote off as dead desert.

Under Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso launches the Groundnut and Oil Corridor – a plan to turn scrub and sand on the edge of the Sahel into a strategic source of cooking oil, local jobs, and hard currency. On paper, it looks like just another development project. In reality, it is a quiet attempt to rewrite who controls food power in one of the most fragile regions on earth.

In this documentary-style deep dive, we follow the corridor from Issa’s fields on once-barren ground, through the refinery where Awa codes each bottle, all the way to a small African grocery in Paris where Mariama sells “Groundnut Oil – Product of Burkina Faso” to people who could have chosen any brand.

Along the way, we ask a simple but uncomfortable question:

If a landlocked Sahel nation can revive “dead” land, produce clean oil from 100,000 tons of peanuts, and keep prices stable for its own poor…
why is its desert oil still treated as a risk?

🔍 In this episode you’ll discover:

How Traoré’s team turns scrub into value
– Drip irrigation, shared wells, and strict drying rules turn dusty edges into productive peanut blocks.

Why peanuts – and why here?
– The forgotten colonial history of West African groundnuts, and why oil from “marginal land” matters for sovereignty.

The invisible ceiling over the Sahel
– Risk memos, clauses, and “documentation inconsistencies” that quietly push desert oil back down the ladder.

The Sahel Groundnut Oil Standard
– A homegrown standard for water, aflatoxin, and traceability that some rich suppliers would struggle to match.

From sand to supermarket shelf
– How oil pressed under Sahel skies ends up in a pan in Paris, not as charity, but as a deliberate choice.

What this means for you
– If the next oil shock hits, will your cooking oil still come from the same old players, or from places like this revived desert belt?
If you are over 50 and watching inflation, supply shocks, and Africa’s political shift with growing concern, this story is about more than peanuts. It’s about whether regions like the Sahel will stay at the edge of the map—or finally claim a place at the center of the global pantry.

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