System · Rationale

Sweet potato

Root crop (Ipomoea batatas) grown for its storage roots and leaves, including vitamin-A-rich orange-fleshed types.

Definition source: AGROVOC: sweet potatoes

Synonyms

OFSP

Broader

Root crop

Narrower

none

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 such as drought, heat, and waterlogging.

Provenance

PRMS pilot

Identifier

SYS_094 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_094
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_094)