A new rice economy.
Built from the field up.
SLERAZ is an integrated agro-industrial platform connecting climate-resilient production, aggregation, modern processing and markets across Kambia and Port Loko.
A system, not a stand-alone facility
Transforming rice from production constraint to growth platform.
The project is designed around the full value chain: better water control and land development, stronger seed and input systems, mechanisation, aggregation, storage, processing, market access and private-sector participation.
Develop productive land.
3,000 hectares of climate-resilient irrigation are complemented by 10,000 hectares of rainfed land development.
Build the missing middle.
Aggregation, drying, storage, mechanisation services and logistics connect production areas to processing and markets.
Process for the market.
Modern integrated rice-processing hubs are designed to improve quality, consistency and competitiveness of locally milled rice.
Make the value chain investable.
The model brings producer groups, service providers, processors, financiers and off-takers into a more commercially connected ecosystem.
Explore participation →The SLERAZ transformation engine
Four connected stages.
One commercial rice system.
The value proposition is strongest when each stage reinforces the next—from resilient production to a product that can compete in the market.
Produce with greater resilience.
Water management, land development, certified seed, mechanisation and stronger extension services are designed to lift productivity and reduce climate exposure.
Reduce loss. Improve movement.
Aggregation, drying, storage, access infrastructure and river transport are designed to move paddy more efficiently from production areas toward processing and markets.
Convert paddy into competitive local rice.
Integrated processing facilities support better milling quality, grading, packaging and value addition—critical for strengthening consumer confidence in local rice.
Connect supply to real demand.
Market linkages, off-take, finance and private-sector participation are intended to turn production growth into durable commercial opportunity.
North-Western Sierra Leone
Kambia + Port Loko.
One connected rice corridor.
The project concentrates infrastructure and services in districts with significant rice-production potential, linking productive landscapes to aggregation and agro-industrial capacity.
Kambia
A major rice-growing landscape forming part of the project’s production, aggregation and agro-processing geography.
Port Loko
Connected to the project corridor through land development, services, processing infrastructure and market access.
Farm-track rehabilitation target in the technical design.
Designed around measurable change
More than hectares.
A stronger rural economy.
SLERAZ links productivity, processing, income, employment, food security and resilience—so infrastructure translates into outcomes people can feel.
Indicative visualisation of the project’s integrated focus; bars are not reported percentages.
Young people and women are built into the model.
The project includes entrepreneurship support, women-led value addition and a youth incubation programme linked to extension services.
400+young students and graduates targeted for extension trainingFood security
Increase the availability and reliability of locally produced rice.
Income
Improve commercial opportunities for farmers and rural enterprises.
Jobs
Expand economic activity across production, services and agro-processing.
Resilience
Reduce exposure to rainfall variability, flooding, salinity and supply shocks.
Water. Seed. Soil. Infrastructure.
Climate risk is not treated as a side issue. It sits inside the production model—from water management and resilient varieties to better land practices and more climate-resilient logistics.
Support for improved, certified and climate-resilient rice varieties.
Irrigation and land-water management intended to reduce climate exposure.
Aggregation, drying, storage and stronger access infrastructure.
Opportunities for rice by-products in feed, energy and other enterprises.
Public investment designed to crowd in enterprise
US$74.8 million.
Built to unlock more than infrastructure.
The financing platform supports productive assets and market systems while creating space for private operators, service providers, processors, financiers and off-takers to participate.
Production partnerships
Anchor-farm, out-grower and commercial production models.
Mechanisation services
Equipment, maintenance and farm-service delivery.
Processing & logistics
Operations, aggregation, storage, transport and value addition.
Finance & off-take
Working capital, innovative finance, procurement and market channels.
Transparency without publishing unnecessary internal detail
Project information that people can use and trust.
SLERAZ’s public information layer focuses on objectives, financing, safeguards, target outcomes and participation. Sensitive personnel, procurement and operational detail is not reproduced on this public-facing site.
P-SL-AA0-026
Project appraisal materials, safeguards and public project documents.
SLERAZ Phase I
Public development objective, alignment and results framework.
Environmental & social documents
ESIAs, stakeholder engagement, grievance and management instruments.
Growth with accountability.
Environmental and social instruments, stakeholder consultation and a grievance redress mechanism form part of the project’s implementation framework.
Transparency & safeguards →From rice potential
to rice economy.
For project information, partnerships, private-sector engagement and general enquiries, contact the SLERAZ team.