The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), the International Centre for development-oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA) and Wageningen UR’s Centre for Development Innovation (CDI), with support from GIZ, and the Dutch Food & Business Knowledge Platform, organize the 3-day seminar “Agricultural Innovation Systems: reality check”.

The event will take place at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam from September 13 till 15, 2016, and will bring together key thinkers to discuss cutting edge issues related to the development impact of Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) approaches. This includes representatives of networks, researchers in AIS related fields, CGIAR centres, development donors, and NGOs.

The themes dig into critical issues: theories of change, organization of research, diversity and inclusion, scale and capacity, integrating analysis and practice. The organizers aim to trigger new thinking on Agricultural Innovation Systems as well as collaboration between participants, and for the outputs to influence agricultural research and development policy and practice.

The seminar is by invitation only. You can follow the seminar on Twitter using hashtag #AISRealityCheck.