System · Rationale

Food system

System comprising the actors, activities, and interactions involved in the production, aggregation, processing, distribution, consumption, and disposal of food, together with the broader environments and outcomes they generate, whose components are exposed.

Definition source: FAO/HLPE Report 12 (2017) · reference

Synonyms

market system, agrifood system, Blue food system

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

Urban and peri-urban food system, Indigenous food system, Local food system

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

CGIAR climate risk profiles assess value-chain vulnerabilities and adaptation opportunities across food systems. | Climate context: sensitive to climate hazards.

Provenance

Domain expert; Lexicon consensus

Identifier

SYS_055 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_055
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_055)