System · Rationale

Food aggregation

Stage of the food system in which food from multiple producers is assembled, bulked and consolidated for onward storage, processing or distribution.

Definition source: FAO food value chains

Synonyms

aggregation, bulking

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

none

Relations

part-of 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

Climate context: exposed to climate hazards affecting supply volumes and timing.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

SYS_057 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_057
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_057)