System · Rationale

Millet

Cereal comprising several small-grained grasses (e.g. pearl, finger, and foxtail millet) grown for grain and forage, valued for tolerance of drought and heat in dryland systems.

Definition source: AGROVOC: millets

Synonyms

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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.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

SYS_007 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_007
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_007)