System · Rationale

Food environment

Consumer-facing component of the food system - the physical, economic, social and political context in which consumers acquire, prepare and consume food - shaping access and diets and influenced by climate hazards affecting supply and prices.

Definition source: FAO/HLPE Report 12 (2017) - food environment

Synonyms

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Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

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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_074 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_074
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_074)