System · Rationale

Maize

Cereal crop (Zea mays) grown for grain, food, and feed.

Definition source: AGROVOC: maize

Synonyms

corn

Broader

Cereal

Narrower

none

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 such as drought and heat that reduce yield.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

SYS_003 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_003
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_003)