System · Rationale

Dairy cattle

Cattle system in which animals are kept primarily for milk production.

Definition source: AGROVOC: dairy cattle

Synonyms

dairy cow, milk cattle

Broader

Cattle

Narrower

none

Relations

emits Methane

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 - especially heat stress and feed and water shortages - that reduce milk yield.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

SYS_020 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_020
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_020)