01
Processing
Flour milling
Replace imported wheat and maize flour with local milling capacity. Anchored by stable institutional demand from food-aid programmes, government, and urban bakeries.
Tenure
8–12 years
Demand anchor
Food aid + retail
— Area 02
Agricultural Investment
Backing what
South Sudan can grow.
Large-scale farming projects and processing plants — flour mills, edible-oil refining, grain storage — to reduce the country’s reliance on food imports.
01
Overview
The most strategic sector in our investment thesis.
Funding large-scale farming projects or processing plants (like flour mills) to reduce the country’s reliance on imports.
South Sudan imports most of what it eats. Every container of wheat flour, edible oil, or sugar we move across the border is also a candidate for local production. Our agriculture thesis is plain: substitute imports where domestic land, water, and labour make it feasible — and capture the margin currently paid to foreign exporters.
02
Investment thesis
Three high-conviction plays.
02
Production
Large-scale farming
Mechanised commercial farms producing the grains and pulses currently imported — sorghum, maize, beans — with offtake into food-aid procurement.
Tenure
10–15 years
Demand anchor
WFP-aligned
03
Infrastructure
Grain storage & oil pressing
Silos, dryers, and edible-oil pressing plants — the missing midstream that lets domestic harvests reach market without spoilage or quality loss.
Tenure
7–12 years
Demand anchor
Trade buyers
03
Strategic angle
Import substitution is national policy.
The government has consistently prioritised reducing food import dependency. Agricultural projects that align with this aim find faster permitting, friendlier tax treatment, and sympathetic ministerial engagement.
Our agriculture deals are positioned within that policy direction — framed as economic-sovereignty investment, not just commercial ventures.