venture | dairy
We invest in sustainable, thriving dairy enterprisesto support healthy, prosperous communities in emerging economies
With the global population expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050, the demand for environmentally sustainable high nutrient food is increasing. Dairy products are a vitally important part of helping to supply these foods. Smallholder dairies have yet to reach their potential. Many smallholder farms lack access to the critical components of being successful, productive and profitable. Venture Dairy addresses all of these.
venture | dairy works with a proven farming model that enhances the lives of smallholder dairy farmers in emerging economies, moving them from subsistence to enterprise-based farming.
Our Approach
Modern farming management
We bring the best of modern dairy farming practices, based on many years of experience in emerging economies. It starts with management. We teach and train by showing farmers how to move from subsistence farming to enterprise-based farming.
Access to capital
With our own investment experience and our relationships with the larger world of impact investors we prepare economic analysis, business plans and risk evaluations in order to find the most appropriate way of bringing access to capital to these entrepreneurs.
Franchise Farming Model
We provide a proven prescriptive farming model and we show farmers how to grow the appropriate forages, how to balance a ration, how to analyse nutrients. And we train extension specialists enabling them to assist farmers.
Route to formal markets
With relationships with many of the world’s top players in the dairy industry, from milk processors to equipment manufacturers, and bespoke market knowledge we help develop routes to markets for dairy products including brand preparation.
Our Services
Consultancy
Economic Farming Units
We provide a proven prescriptive farming model and show farmers how to grow appropriate forages, balance a ration, and how to analyse nutrients. Enabling them to move towards enterprise-based farming.
Training
We give technical and management training and bring the best of modern dairy farming practices. We train dairy farmers and also extension specialists enabling them to assist farmers.
Preparing for investment
We prepare economic analysis, business plans and risk evaluations in order to find the most appropriate way of bringing access to capital. And work with impact investors to deliver financial packages to business in the dairy supply chain.
Setting up the value chain
We develop a complete value chain from setting up Economic Farming Units, designing and building processing plants with appropriate dairy technology companies to setting up markets for high quality milk products
Access to our network
We will bring into any consultancy arrangement our worldwide network of the top players in the dairy industry, to which we have unique relationships. These include business, academia and finance.
Our Team
venture | dairy is a team of experts, passionate about bringing change to the problems in dairy economies in emerging markets. We address these problems in a number of ways bringing deep skills, experience and cultural understanding to make long term sustainable change through our disruptive and proven farming model.