The ‘existence before essence’ research team lies within the economic and social research field and we will be applying for instigation of the Investigator, responsive mode, as well as instigation from various businesses and funding organisations through calls for Proposals, Tenders or Managed Mode. We want to eradicate the continuing poverty that occurs in the Sahel. The issue of drought, poverty and starvation has haunted our lifetimes; we want to be an independent unaligned body of researchers and reporters that concentrate solely on finding a long lasting solution through means of access to trade markets for rural farmers and rural people.