System · Rationale

Mixed system

Production system combining crop and animal (and sometimes tree) production on the same farm, using their interactions to spread and manage climate and production risk.

Definition source: AGROVOC: mixed farming

Synonyms

integrated system, Integrated farming system, Mixed farming system

Broader

Production system

Narrower

Integrated fish-farming, Mixed crop-livestock system, Mixed crop-tree 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.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

SYS_075 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_075
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_075)