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The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security will convene the Sierra Leone Agrifood Investor Summit at New Brookfields Hotel from 28 to 30 October 2025, with President Dr. Julius Maada Bio scheduled to officially open the three-day event.
The summit is designed to attract private capital, development finance, and impact investment to scale agrifood operations and deepen value chains across the country.
The summit will showcase Sierra Leone’s FeedSalone initiative and underscore the government’s political commitment to transforming the agrifood sector. Organizers intend the event to signal improved business policies, reduced investment risk, and expanded market opportunities for both local firms and international investors. The gathering aligns public policy, private capital, and technical partners to accelerate food systems that are more productive, climate resilient, and inclusive.
More than 25 international and regional investors, development finance institutions, and impact funds will take part alongside over 40 local agrifood companies. The program combines plenary sessions, sector-specific panels, investor pitch sessions, targeted roundtables, networking receptions, and bilateral one-to-one meetings between investors and local firms. Delegates will have opportunities for curated site visits to standard agrifood operations in and around Freetown.
The summit climaxes opportunities across staple cereals, horticulture, livestock, aquaculture, and post-harvest processing. Key investment themes include aggregation and out grower models, cold chain and storage infrastructure, value-added processing and packaging, logistics and distribution, and agritech solutions that improve productivity and reduce post-harvest losses. Sessions will also address climate-smart agriculture, financial instruments for smallholder inclusion, and ways to scale local processors into regional exporters.
Organizers expect the summit to yield memoranda of understanding, investment commitments, new public–private partnerships, and concrete action plans for scaling promising local agribusinesses.
The government will use the event to spotlight recent policy reforms and incentives aimed at creating a more enabling environment for agrifood investment. Strong presidential engagement is intended to accelerate decision-making and signal long-term political backing for sector reform.
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