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Our History
The Sierra Leone Chamber for Agribusiness Development (SLeCAD) is a forum of agribusiness business operators, companies, and industries with interests in promoting agribusiness private sector investment and agro-industrialization in the agricultural sector
As a private sector body, SLeCAD was established with the prime objective of promoting agribusiness private sector development, particularly is establishing platforms and facilitating interactions for agribusiness, partnerships, trade and investment in agriculture in Sierra Leone.
The Chamber represents the voice of the agribusinesses with total commitment to playing a leadership role towards propelling Sierra Leone’s economy to higher heights. As an independent agribusiness support organization, we serve as a link between established agribusinesses, the emerging sector, and government at the various levels while offering our members a myriad of business development support services.
As at now, the Chamber has and will continue to influence government policies and programmes, which will habituate to the good performance of the private sector while promoting the overall development of the Sierra Leone economy.
Our vision is sustainable Agribusiness in Sierra Leone through enhanced productivity and competitiveness at National, Regional and Global Markets.
Financial Progress in 2019
The Chamber conducts advocacy programs to mobilize and create a network involving smallholder farmers, processors marketing companies, research institutions, transporters, policy makers, small enterprises, agribusiness specialists and corporate enterprises to improve productivity and competitiveness of Sierra Leone agricultural produce. As advocacy is a major source of new agricultural knowledge, this is a key strategic area of focus and intervention by the chamber whose mandate is to promote and facilitate agribusiness development and value addition. From the chamber’s perspective, the interventions in this area are primarily through promoting private investment in the agriculture sector of Sierra Leone and ensure mutual benefits in information sharing,improving the flow of agricultural research information, ensuring its equitable access and appropriation by all agricultural actors and enabling learning systems to make effective use of it for agricultural innovation.