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Chapter 12
What Is the Evidence Base for 
Climate-Smart Agriculture in East
and Southern Africa? A Systematic Map
Todd S. Rosenstock, Christine Lamanna, Nictor Namoi, Aslihan Arslan,
and Meryl Richards
12.1 Investments in CSA
More than 500 million USD will soon be invested in climate-smart agriculture
(CSA) programmes across sub-Saharan Africa, a non-trivial fraction of which is
targeted for East and Southern Africa. CSA is increasingly endorsed and promoted
by national, regional, continental and global institutions (e.g., governments, the
Regional Economic Communities of the African Union, the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development, international non-governmental organizations and the Green
T. S. Rosenstock (*)
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS),
Wageningen, Netherlands
e-mail: T.Rosenstock@cgiar.org
C. Lamanna · N. Namoi
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya
e-mail: C.Lamanna@cgiar.org; N.Namoi@cgiar.org
A. Arslan
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy
e-mail: a.arslan@ifad.org
M. Richards
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS),
Wageningen, Netherlands
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT, USA
e-mail: meryl.richards@uvm.edu