System · Rationale

Oilseed

Crop system based on plants grown primarily for the oil extracted from their seeds or fruits (e.g. soybean, sunflower, oil palm, groundnut).

Definition source: AGROVOC: oilseeds

Synonyms

oil crop

Broader

Crop system

Narrower

Sunflower

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 yield and oil content.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

SYS_014 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_014
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_014)