In 2015, AgDevCo, in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, established the Smallholder Development Unit (SDU), to work with rural agricultural enterprises, to increase farm productivity of 490,000 smallholder farmers (of which 50%
women), to raise their income and improve their well-being. The five-year programme is implemented in seven African countries: Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, and Senegal. The SDU-supported outgrower schemes are expected to take a gender- and youth-inclusive approach.