Zambia Seed Company Limited (Zamseed) and Silverlands Tanzania Limited (Silverlands Tanzania) have been named as two of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies 2022 in an inaugural report published by The Financial Times.
Read MoreIn Tanzania, the Silverlands fund has established a cropping and livestock operation aiming at developing and expanding markets for local small-scale farmers. This includes training, purchase of local crops and selling quality feed and day-old chicken for local breeding. To improve the outcome of the small-scale farmers, Silverlands has set up Agricultural Marketing Co-operative Societies (AMCOS), which is supported financially by IFU.
Read MoreCorporate LiveWire recently spoke to SilverStreet’s founding partner and Chief Investment Officer, Gary Vaughan-Smith to learn more about the opportunities…
Read MoreSilverStreet Capital, a leading investor across the agricultural value chain, has been awarded Ethical Investor of the Year award as part of Corporate LiveWire’s 2018…
Read MoreConditions in the first half of 2018 are setting up for very interesting investment opportunities in the agricultural sector and these opportunities look…
Read MoreA lot of what’s needed in African agriculture is quite low-tech if tech at all,” says Gary Vaughan-Smith, chief investment officer at SilverStreet Capital….
Read MoreThe Namibian grape season has gotten off to a good start, this is good news for the growers who had an early end to last season. Temperatures at the moment…
Read MoreThe OPIC Blog: In Zambia, healthy cattle graze on a local farm that has been able to improve animal health with the support of the Silverlands Fund…
Read MoreSilverStreet Capital has held the third closing of Silverlands II, the successor fund to its original Silverlands Fund. SilverStreet Capital is a leading …
Read MoreBeing a small-scale cattle farmer in Zambia has its challenges; from disease risk, to worrying about the weather, the herd’s calving rate and even the market price…
Read MoreWith the recent drought in Southern Africa compounding the unpredictable impact of climate change on food production, local farmers are converting to drip irrigation in an attempt to conserve water, using less to produce more, according to Crookes Brother’s Limited (CBL) MD Guy Clarke.
Read MoreAnton Alexander, the 2016 Prestige Agri-Worker of the Year, made every opportunity count to work himself up from a seasonal worker to an HR officer
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Read MoreSilverStreet Capital is pleased to announce the permanent appointment of Clarissa Beresford as Head of Finance with responsibility for financial reporting…
Read MoreSilverStreet Capital, a leading private equity investor in the agricultural sector with offices in the UK, South Africa and Zimbabwe, has made a further…
Read MoreSilverStreet Capital, a leading private equity investor in the agricultural sector, has appointed Richard Drover as Chief Financial Officer.
Read MoreSilverStreet Capital, a leading private equity investor in the agricultural sector, has strengthened its investment team with the appointment of a…
Read MoreSilverlands Ranching Partnership with Musika achieving substantial positive benefits for small-holder farmers.
Read MoreAn increasing number of private equity and alternative investment managers are getting into the agriculture and agribusiness sector(s).
Read MoreEast Africa has become a major focal point for oil and gas exploration after discoveries in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. While the Seychelles and Mauritius
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