  We investigate the viability of a two-stage inflationary scenario in the
context of supergravity, so as to resolve the problem of initial conditions for
hybrid inflation. We allow for non-renormalizable terms in the superpotential
and consider the most general form of the Kahler potential and the gauge
kinetic function. We construct a model with two stages of inflation, the first
driven by D-term and the second by F-term energy density. The viability of this
scenario depends on the non-minimal terms in the Kahler potential, for which we
derive the necessary constraints.
