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This paper examines the impacts on African food systems due to impact of  increasing weather extremes caused by due to  climate change. change on African food systems.  The specific focus lies on agroforestry adaptation measures that can be applied by smallholder farmers to protect their livelihood and to make their food production more resilient against the effects of those weather extremes. The adoption potentials for these those  adaptation strategies are evaluated, taking into consideration regional environmental and socio-economic differences. Possible differences, and possible  barriers for adoptionof agroforestry  with respect to extrinsic and intrinsic factors are outlined. According to the indicators that approximate extrinsic factors, a high adoption potential for agroforestry is likely to be found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Gabon, Ghana, Mauritania and Senegal. A very low potentialfor wide-spread agroforestry  exists in Somalia, Eritrea, South Sudan and Rwanda.