Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT)

The Crop Trust is a non-profit international organization dedicated to conserving crop diversity and making it available for use globally, forever, for the benefit of everyone.

We work with donors and partners to lead global projects that protect crop diversity, conserve crop wild relatives and develop technology to make this diversity accessible worldwide.

We seek professionals with a passion for global food security and a strong drive to contribute to our mission of conserving crop diversity for future generations.

Website: https://www.ctdt.co.zw/

Location

Harare, Zimbabwe

Mission

CTDO seeks to promote participatory research, technology, and innovation systems and to advocate for policies that alleviate poverty, food, and nutrition insecurity of marginalized communities

Background

CTDO promotes integrated agrobiodiversity management, environmental management, food and seed security, water and sanitation and policy and advocacy programmes with the objective to promote sustainable livelihoods. The organization aims to contribute to increased household food production and food security through gender sensitive and social inclusion of household marginality emanating from HIV and AIDS, disability and climate change induced shocks.

CTDO strongly believes that sustainable management and use of agro-biodiversity and increased agricultural productivity require an integrated approach, and to this end focuses on bringing farmers and their representative unions, researchers and agricultural extensionists, consumers, policy makers and all other relevant stakeholders together for an integrated approach to its work programmes.

CTDO has moved from a single funding partner to multiple donors and consortium programming approach. In 2020, CTDO was operating in eighteen districts of Zimbabwe and is working with over 300 000 households.