System · Rationale

Cereal

Crop system comprising grain-producing grasses such as maize, wheat, rice, sorghum, and millet, cultivated for food and feed.

Definition source: AGROVOC: cereals

Synonyms

grain crop

Broader

Crop system

Narrower

Maize, Wheat, Rice, Sorghum, Millet, Barley

Counts as adaptation

System is exposed to a climate hazard, OR is acted on by a hazard-addressing intervention, OR benefits from a qualifying outcome or an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when named only as the sector or commodity of work, with no exposure and no hazard-addressing action on it.

Example of use

Climate context: exposed to climate hazards affecting grain yield and quality.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

SYS_002 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_002
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_002)