Community Technology Development Trust- Zambia

Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT) is a not for profit making NGO registered in 2009 with the objective of contributing to the livelihoods of rural communities through interventions aimed at promoting biodiversity conservation and natural resources management in food production practices. CTDT promotes the management of agrobiodiversity to enhance sustainable livelihoods through intervention strategies aimed at facilitating restoration and enhancement of traditional plant varieties and animal breeds. CTDT strives to enable farmers to own, manage, control and benefit from agrobiodiversity through supporting conservation, restoration and enhancement of local crops and livestock. CTDT is actively involved in the areas of agrobiodiversity, household and nutrition security needs, climate change, policy advocacy and gender mainstreaming. CTDT promotes cultivation of wide diversity of crops and varieties in order to contribute to household food and nutrition security needs in the face of climate change. This involves the cultivation of different nutrition groups of starch, proteins, minerals and vitamins.