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Leading Investor in African Agriculture

 
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+ Investing across the agricultural value chain

SilverStreet Capital invests across the agricultural value chain, including:

  • Storage
  • Deciduous Fruit
  • Grains
  • Processing
  • Poultry
  • Grapes

+ Award winning

SilverStreet has been recognised with high profile awards for its continued efforts in creating sustainable, ethical and positively impactful businesses:

  • Best African Agriculture PE Fund (Wealth & Finance International)
  • Emerging Markets Investment Company of the year (Global Fund Awards, Corporate LiveWire)
  • Ethical Investor of the year (Global Fund Awards, Corporate LiveWire)
  • Best Impact Investor (Wealth & Finance International)
  • Sector Focused Fund Manager Award (CDC Group and Global Private Capital Association)

+ High Quality Investment Partners

Our investors are based in Europe and the US and are mostly institutional investors: pension funds, foundations, endowments and larger family offices.

We also have investments from three development financial institutions: the UK government; the Danish government and the Finnish government.

We have a debt facility from the DFC, a US government department.

+ High ESG standards

We implement the highest ESG standards, which include:

  • Our own Responsible Investment Code
  • IFC Performance Standards (World Bank)
  • UN Global Compact

We are signatories to: UN Principles for Responsible Investment

+ Substantial Positive Social and Climate Impact

SilverStreet has a proven track record of integrating a positive social impact into business models. In 2021 we positively impacted 577,000 people across Sub-Saharan Africa.

 

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View fullsize Happy International Women's Day! Our businesses employ 4,200 women (40% of the total workforce) and we have numerous gender focused initiatives to ensure that women are empowered to fully participate in the workplace. We believe that this will help t
View fullsize The date harvest at Silverlands Namibia started this week. This is just a small initial volume from young trees, but the goal is to build a leading platform for this industry. Being in the Southern Hemisphere allows for opposite harvest timing compa
View fullsize Using a precision drone on seed maize at Selous farm, Silverlands Ndolela in Tanzania. #agritech #investinagriculture #impactinvesting #investinafrica #tanzania #silverlands #esginvesting
View fullsize La Nina has brought very good rains in Zambia and our dam spilled in mid-January, the earliest since we built it. We double crop soya and wheat and the farm's higher than average altitude of 1,400m makes it a particularly good location for wheat.
View fullsize @silverlandstanzania is the largest feed producer in Tanzania and the third largest producer of day-old chicks, selling 14 million to 134,000 poultry farmers in 2021. The training centre (pictured) has seen 3,218 smallholder farmers leave with a qual
View fullsize And under those solar panels at Two-A-Day, 43 hectares' worth of apples are currently being processed. The apples were grown at Bellcro Farming, a joint-venture deciduous fruit farm owned by ex-employees of Bellevue Farm, the government and Crookes B
View fullsize Our deciduous fruit processing business, Two-A-Day, has built Africa's second-largest roof-top solar installation. The 5,981 solar panels have: - avoided using 1.4 million litres of gasoline, or - stopped emission of 3,300 tonnes of CO2, or - prev
View fullsize Silverlands Namibia finished it's grape harvest last week - the grapes were shipped to 13 different ports as far west as Toronto and as far east as Singapore.
View fullsize Namibia Zamseed has won the ‘Best Agronomy Service Provider of the Year’ award at the National Agronomy and Horticulture Awards (NAHA). The Namibian Agronomic Board (NAB) selected Namibia Zamseed in recognition of its high quality seed th
View fullsize Quinta Da Bela Vista (QBV) is a banana operation in Mozambique. QBV was established in 2016 as a joint venture between our Silverlands I Fund and Crookes Brothers and currently comprises 143 hectares of irrigated bananas, with plans to expand the ope
View fullsize Our young avocado orchards are now starting to produce export quality fruit at Selous farm in Tanzania. The addition of this high-value crop adds profitability to the existing seed maize and potato operations.
View fullsize Silverlands Namibia are harvesting table grapes this month. Silverlands' vineyard area has grown by nearly 40% in the last 2 years to its current 485-hectare size and it is continuing to develop new vineyards in the valley to meet the strong demand
View fullsize New tractor planting 60 hectares of soya on Kakushi Farm, Zambia
View fullsize New pack sheds and cold rooms at #Silverlands Ranching Limited in Lusaka, Zambia. Each of the 3 state-of-the-art monitored cold rooms stores around 600 tons of potatoes in wooden bins at 4 degrees celsius for 3-4 months. All seed potato is grown
View fullsize Spring-time on our apple farms. This is Vyeboom farm in the Elgin-Grabouw valley in the Cape.
 

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