System · Rationale

Legume

Crop system of the legume (Fabaceae) family grown for seeds, pods, forage or green manure and able to fix atmospheric nitrogen; the broad family encompassing pulses and oil/forage legumes.

Definition source: AGROVOC: legumes

Synonyms

leguminous crop

Broader

Crop system

Narrower

Pulse, Soybean, Groundnut

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; Restructure (v5)

Identifier

SYS_078 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_078
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_078)