Thomas Schellen

The proverbial Lebanese entrepreneur is nothing if not agile and adaptive. She or he is a dealmaker par excellence and almost genetically primed to spot opportunities and seek to exploit …

Lebanon this year did not get off to a great and happy start in policy making. Neither on the micro-level of this small country on the edge of the world’s …

It is much more than a vague, billion-dollar opportunity for growing cannabis. Lebanese agriculture today is a field with many plots whose diversity has already grown when compared with some …

What can illustrate the relationship between the farmer and the banker in this country? To modify an old consultant joke to a Lebanese scenario, let us assume – purely for …

An entrepreneurship ecosystem captures the essence of entrepreneurial energy in a cycle of economic life. For these energies to become manifest and productive, ecosystems need a constant supply of fresh …

Access to finance is a major barrier to the development of infrastructure for the agriculture sector. Much needed Investment in general and agro-specific hard infrastructure along with soft infrastructure is vital for the …

The importance of women-led startups is a no-brainer for entrepreneurial growth in every sector.Executive talks to Mrs. Lara ElKhoury a Program manager at Berytech, Mrs. Angie Meskawi the founder of …

Investing into an agricultural stock or an agricultural infrastructure system is intensely unlike dreaming of instant financial gratification, for example by becoming a financial markets jock. Imagine being a day …

The future of farming will involve escalations of aquaculture and urban farming. These are ancient forms of food cultivation that are or can be decoupled from soil. As such, they …

Language becomes a tool of fools when it simplifies complex systems and developments into slogans such as democracy and revolution. One blatant case of language confusion that today dogs many …