System · Rationale

Camelid

Livestock system based on raising camelids (e.g. camels, llamas, alpacas) for milk, meat, fibre, transport, or assets, valued for tolerance of arid and high-altitude climate stress.

Definition source: AGROVOC: camelids

Synonyms

camel, llama, alpaca

Broader

Livestock system

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_025 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_025
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_025)