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Contents
1 An Introduction to the Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers . . . . . . . .
1
Todd S. Rosenstock, David Rohrbach, Andreea Nowak, and Evan
Girvetz
Part I Climate Risks and Impacts
2
Future Climate Projections in Africa: Where Are We Headed? . . . . 15
Evan Girvetz, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Lieven Claessens, Christine
Lamanna, Carlos Navarro-Racines, Andreea Nowak, Phil Thornton,
and Todd S. Rosenstock
3 Climate Change and Infectious Livestock Diseases:
The Case of Rift Valley Fever and Tick-Borne Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Bernard Bett, Johanna Lindahl, and Grace Delia
4
Large Scale Crop Suitability Assessment Under Future
Climate Using the Ecocrop Model: The Case of Six Provinces
in Angola’s Planalto Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Roland Hunter and Olivier Crespo
5
Understanding the Role of Soils and Management on Crops
in the Face of Climate Uncertainty in Zimbabwe:
A Sensitivity Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Patricia Masikati, Katrien Descheemaeker, and Olivier Crespo
Part II Adaptive Germplasm Delivery Systems
6
Role and Challenges of the Private Seed Sector in Developing
and Disseminating Climate- Smart Crop Varieties in Eastern
and Southern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Biswanath Das, Francois Van Deventer, Andries Wessels,
Given Mudenda, John Key, and Dusan Ristanovic