Application of Innovation system conceptualization in agriculture development projects is rapidly growing in significance in the recent past. This is because of a general appreciation among many that agriculture development is a context specific embedded process involving diverse agencies operating based on their respective mandates and interests. However, different theorists have been promoting different narratives for the innovation process, ranging from poor/user-led innovation to researcher-led innovation. These narratives endorse different configurations of stakeholders and assign different roles for them in the innovation process. However the Research Into Use (RIU) programme’s Central Research Team (CRT) thinks that the best way to approach it is by having a diversity of these Innovation Narratives, which probably suit for different agriculture development contexts. They are trying to substantiate this thinking by investigating empirical cases in different locations of the Programme.