Case Study: Successful models to empower women in outgrower schemes.

10 December 2017

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.

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