The Link Between Pineapples + Immigration

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Thursday Sep 05, 2019 1 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [How the Humble Pineapple Is Curbing Guinean Immigration to Europe]( Thousands of migrants once fled the West African nation, but pineapple cultivation is helping put a stop to that. “I decided to return home if I survived,” he recalls. He did survive, thanks to a chance interception at a Libyan prison by officials of the International Organization for Migration a month later. These days, the 28-year-old runs his own pineapple plantation just outside Kindia, Guinea’s fourth-largest city. Aboubacar is among a growing number of Guineans who are part of an ambitious experiment to turn one of the world’s poorest nations into a major pineapple producer and reduce dangerous economic migration. Despite large bauxite and iron ore deposits, this tiny West African nation has an annual per capita gross domestic product of just $885. More than half of the country’s 12 million-strong population is under the age of 25, and that combination of youth and poverty has long fueled migration. In 2016, two years after the outbreak of an Ebola epidemic added another incentive to leave, 13,342 economic migrants from Guinea reached the shores of Italy. Only Nigeria and Eritrea sent more migrants to Italy that year. [READ MORE]( 2 [Rising Stars]( [Rising Stars]( [Meet the Democrats' Most Dangerous Digital Strategist]( Tara McGowan is pioneering strategies that could upend politics as we know it. It’s June 26, the first night of the Democratic debates. But at a watch party at the Brixton bar, in Washington’s trendy U Street neighborhood, none of the Democrats are paying attention to the drama on the screen. Instead, they are circled around Tara McGowan, a weapon of a woman whose innovative tactics make her critically important to the Democratic Party … and the biggest threat to the orthodoxy that has made so many left-leaning digital gurus rich in the post-Obama era. “This was an excuse to throw an open bar,” the 33-year-old brunette quips, promising to keep her speech short. The event is also a birthday party for Acronym, the digital-focused nonprofit she founded in 2017. “It feels like we have lived a thousand years in those two years,” she admits. [READ MORE]( 3 [Immodest proposal]( [Immodest proposal]( [Why Industrial Espionage Is Good for Mankind]( It may no longer be politically acceptable, but stealing technology is actually great for economic development. In Ghent, right next to a medieval cathedral, you find the likeness of Lieven Bauwens, who, in the 18th century, helped make Belgium one of the first countries to industrialize after the United Kingdom. How? By stealing British technology. Bauwens stole British machine designs and even lured away skilled British workers — highly illegal at the time — to set up his own textile factories in Ghent. Eventually some bad political and economic dealings bankrupted him, and he died alone in Paris. But his shady moves kick-started the industrial revolution on the continent. [READ MORE]( [Sponsored by: CARIUMA]( [The Sneaker That Extends Summertime]( We found just the thing to banish those end-of-summer blues: white kicks that will keep you in a vacation state of mind even as you head back to work or school. Why? Because white kicks work, no matter the season, whether you’re at the beach or at your desk. And this versatile sneaker — with its classic styling, sleek, sturdy canvas and lightweight cushion technology — is everything you’re looking for in a solemate. It’s where function meets fabulous — so treat yourself to a pair. 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