The Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) is an interdisciplinary and internationally focused unit of Wageningen University & Research centre.  The Centre works on processes of innovation and change through facilitating innovation, brokering knowledge and supporting capacity development. We help to link Wageningen UR’s expertise to the global challenges of sustainable and equitable development.  CDI works to inspire new forms of learning and collaboration between citizens, governments, businesses, NGOs and the scientific community. read more

Wide-scale commercialization of smallholder farming is foreseen to be a predominant source for agricultural growth in Ethiopia. The prevailing ‘hybrid maize model’ for private sector development is considered by some to be most appropriate in realizing African food security. However, contemporary lessons reveal the limitations of this linear model in the context of complex and robust agricultural systems in Africa. Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) appreciates the unique challenges faced by a sector rich in diversity. The objective of the ISSD programme is to strengthen the development of a vibrant, commercial and pluralistic seed sector in Ethiopia. read more

In the context of the Food Security Support Initiative of the Task Team Food and Nutrition Security by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, six embassy support missions were conducted in 2011 by Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation and others, in the selected Fast Track Process Countries Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique and Rwanda. The missions aimed to provide support to Embassies (EKNs) for the design and implementation of the Food and Nutrition component of the 2012-2015 Multi-Annual Strategic Plans (MASP) and the Fast Track Process. Discussions between the selected six embassies and the Task Team Food and Nutrition Security have resulted in Embassy-specific proposals and action plans for the Fast Track Process and first steps towards a sharp food security component of the MASP. Read more