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Cover cropping

Crop management that grows cover crops between main crops to protect and improve the soil, conserving moisture and organic matter and reducing erosion under variable rainfall.

Definition source: AGROVOC: cover crops

Synonyms

cover crops

Broader

Crop management

Narrower

none

Relations

addresses Drought
produces Water availability
applies-to Crop system
sequesters Carbon sink
produces Soil organic carbon

Counts as adaptation

Intervention addresses a climate hazard, OR produces a qualifying outcome (adaptation-specific or hazard-conditioned), OR produces an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when done purely for productivity, market, or development with no hazard link and no hazard-referenced result.

Mitigation

Mitigation-conditional: Intervention reduces emissions of a source or gas, OR sequesters carbon, OR produces a mitigation outcome; NOT mitigation when done for productivity, market, or development reasons only, with no emissions link and no emissions-referenced result.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

INT_027 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_027
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_027)