What we do - CDI

The Centre for Development Innovation helps to link Wageningen UR’s expertise to the global challenges of sustainable and equitable development. Working in countries with developing and transitional economies we support processes of innovation and change through facilitating innovation, brokering knowledge and supporting capacity development.

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CDI works to inspire new forms of learning and collaboration between citizens, governments, businesses, NGOs and the scientific community.

Some of our projects

• Soy - Promising pulse in Ethiopia? May 2, 2013 - As request of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Ethiopia, CDI contributed to the development of the soy sector in the country to decrease its...
• Seed Potato Development in Kenya – Phase II of the public-private support project February 13, 2013 - CDI is managing a Dutch-Kenyan public-private partnership initiative to support seed potato development in Kenya. With potato being the second most...
• Community-managed disaster risk reduction February 6, 2013 - Cordaid has supported community-managed disaster risk reduction in the Horn of Africa for eight years. This evaluation, conducted by CDI and...
• The Sesame Business Network in North West Ethiopia January 23, 2013 - CDI is the coordinating organisation of the support programme to the Sesame Business Network (SBN) in North West Ethiopia. The SBN is a network owned...
• Investigating the suitability of constructed wetlands for the treatment of water for fish farms January 22, 2013 - Fish farms in Egypt produce over 500,000 tons of fish annually and contribute over 50% of the fish consumed by the Egyptian population. Egyptian laws...

Some of our courses

• Media design for social change May 7, 2012 - Course - Rural development organisations are actively engaged in communication. In a changing media landscape, conventional linear and top-down information...
• Agriculture in transition July 25, 2012 - Course - To go beyond just an increase in outputs to feed 9 billion people in 2050, an integral redirection of current farming practices is required. Nowadays...
• Strengthening research capacity in conflict-affected societies July 25, 2012 - Course - In conflict-affected areas objective assessments of secure livelihoods are both necessary and extremely difficult. Lack of data, insecurity and social...
• Lost harvest and wasted food August 1, 2012 - Course - Large contrasts exist in how we manage the food we have available. While in parts of our societies there is a shortage of food, in the urban and...
• Governance for forest, nature and people August 1, 2012 - Course - Within natural resources management, there is broad agreement that the focus has shifted from ‘government’ to ‘governance’. The first refers to a...