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.
We reach out to over 500 000 people in Zimbabwe annually, particularly the most vulnerable in the target communities.
The objective is to increase household food security among the communities. CTDO supports the development of appropriate agricultural technologies, farmer innovations, local knowledge systems and sustainable natural resources utilization.
The focus is to enable farmers to own, control, manage and benefit from the agro-diversity at local, national and internationals level through supporting conservation, restoration, recuperation and enhancement of plant genetic resources.
The thrust is to reduce community vulnerability to the effects of climate change and land degradation and enhance their adaptive capacities through natural resources management and value-addition.
The aim is to influence policy on biodiversity and trade in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa and beyond through policy engagement, formulation, implementation and capacity building of relevant stakeholders.
We implement various projects through our four programme pillars – Food Security and Livelihoods, Agricultural Biodiversity, Environmental Management and Climate Change and Policy and Advocacy.
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