Joab Josiah Langi Osumba is a Research Officer on Climate Smart Agriculture Policy. Joab holds a BSc Agriculture (University of Nairobi, 1990), a Post Graduate Diploma in Agricultural Education (Egerton University, 1998), a Master of Philosophy in Environmental Science (Moi University, 2009), a Certificate in Environmental Impact Assessment and Audit (Kenya School of Government, 2008) and is currently a PhD student in Climate Change Adaptation (University of Nairobi). Joab has worked with government agencies, development partners, development actors/ civil society and private sector in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Joab’s research interests are in evidence-based policy reforms for climate smart agriculture. Joab has been in climate policy space since 2009, through wide-ranging engagements in environmental risk management, climate change, climate smart agriculture, and food security, from local interventions to national policy dialogues. He has led &/or participated in several assignments & missions on agricultural development, environmental risk management/natural resource management & climate change adaptation/climate-smart agriculture