Before any financial model of an agroecological project, one question: does the model assume constant yields from month one? If the answer is yes, the Excel is optimistic and the field is going to be brutal. Biological cycles do not negotiate with cash flows — the model has to adapt to them, not the other way around.
Before any financial model of a project that integrates biology, construction, and technology: does each subsystem have its own cycles and restrictions documented independently before modeling the complete system? If the answer is no, the model will be as optimistic as the first one that is abandoned after a week.
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