The "Safe Space" Model

Our aim is to reduce the end price of healthy foods by 70-80%—the demonstrated tipping point of affordability among the world's low income population. This will unlock an estimated $3 trillion market at the base of the pyramid, and create wealth, dignity, and equity for stateless peoples around the world. We have identified new lands and unutilized water sources to establish new production areas to feed the world through the 21st century. We will accomplish this in each of the respective 6 corridors by syndicating its own $20 billion bond issue to finance the infrastructure for a vertically integrated horticulture development, and implementing cutting-edge technologies to reduce costs at each of the 4-stages of the traditional supply chain:

1. Production - Center pivot systems offers a solution to precisely apply water to crops, reducing waste. The optimized cost per hectare is realized when each circle irrigates 60-70 hectares, which in many locations will require a water sharing cooperative for multiple farmers. These systems can work on hills with up to a 14% slope.
2. Processing - Food spoilage is the largest source of water and energy waste and will be avoided by situating cooling and packing plants directly on the production sites, where maturity scaling will ensure foods are harvested at the appropriate times, and then loaded into 40 foot refrigerated containers.  
3. Transportation - Transport by rail is 90% cheaper than traditional trucking road transport; Transport by water is 90% cheaper than rail transport. Our model will eliminate all expensive and polluting road transport. The double stack refrigerated containers will be shipped from the production site on energy efficient light rails (with maximum 0.5% grade) to the nearest water source, then subsequently by shallow draft reefer container vessels to the megacities of the respective corridor.
4. Marketing - Our urban planners are designing dual purpose light rail infrastructure for the megacities (e.g. Cairo, Lagos, Manila) which will bring the refrigerated containers of food directly to the urban slums, and loaded into the 1st floor consumer cooperative storefront, directly below the 2nd story family owned home. The food will then be sold at a fraction of supermarket retail prices to people who can currently only afford a basic diet of unhealthy staple crops.

Over a 15-20 year build, operate and transfer under the auspices of the FWE affiliated social enterprise "NexCore," the Safe Space for Humanity model will trigger a dietary transition among the poor, create livelihoods and land ownership in new, prosperous settlements for refugees, and create jobs and homeownership for rural-to-urban migrants.

"Safe Space for Humanity" Model Example

The East Mediterranean Corridor demonstrates the potential power of the "Safe Space for Humanity" approach as a catalyst for peace in addition to offering food, water, and energy security to the world. In the aftermath of the Syrian refugee crisis, millions of Syrians have fled their homeland, putting economic, environmental and social stress on neighboring Jordan and Lebanon. 

Excess water from the Tigris River can be transferred to Jordan, where 1 billion cubic meters (BCM) can irrigate 75,000 hectares of fruit orchards managed by cooperatives of Syrian refugees in the Al Hamad Plain. 1 BCM of water would sustain Amman's municipal demand, and 1 BCM could rehabilitate the Dead Sea and irrigate production in the West Bank and Gaza. A light rail and water transport would connect fresh produce to the Cairo and Alexandria markets. An additional 75,000 hectares could be irrigated in the plains between Şırnak, Turkey and Duhok, Iraq, and a new light rail could follow the old Ottoman railway path to the Mediterranean Sea, where fresh produce could be shipped to Istanbul. A short-run proof-of-concept would entail production utilizing extant water resources in existing reservoirs northeast Jordan, and shipped by light-rail directly to UNHCR for the Zaatari Refugee Camp.