Agricultural Markets Development Trust (AMDT) was established by the Governments of Denmark, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland in 2014 in cooperation with Tanzania. It is a long-term facility with a mandate of increasing incomes and employment opportunities for poor women, men, and young people through a strong pro-poor focus on making markets work for the poor (M4P)/markets systems development (MSD) approach in Tanzanian agricultural value chains. AMDT works with the Private Sector, Government, and Civil Society Organisations to stimulate changes to market systems leading to broad and sustained impact on the lives of smallholder farmers as well as the competitiveness of agricultural micro small, and medium enterprises(MSMEs).
AMDT achieves this by working with market actors and invest in interventions that are: (i) based on diagnosed constraints and have pro-poor opportunities, (ii) are well coordinated to enhance the leveraging of investments and resources, (iii) stimulate the development of inclusive, competitive, and resilient agricultural market systems, leading to sustained benefits and impacts for the productive poor.
