System · Rationale

Root crop

Crop system grown for edible swollen roots - such as cassava, sweet potato and beet; the broader root-and-tuber grouping.

Definition source: AGROVOC: root crops

Synonyms

root and tuber crop

Broader

Crop system

Narrower

Cassava, Sweet potato

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_010 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_010
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_010)