Intervention · Intervention
Mulching
Soil management that covers the soil surface with organic or synthetic material to conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and suppress weeds, reducing crop sensitivity to heat and drought.
Definition source: AGROVOC: mulching
- Synonyms
- mulch application, mulch
- Broader
- Soil management
- Narrower
- none
- 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.
- Provenance
- Domain expert
- Identifier
INT_037· https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_037
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_037)