System · Rationale

Cowpea

Pulse crop (Vigna unguiculata) grown for grain, fodder, and leaves, valued for heat and drought tolerance in Sahelian and semi-arid systems.

Definition source: AGROVOC: cowpeas

Synonyms

black-eyed pea, niebe

Broader

Pulse

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.

Provenance

PRMS pilot

Identifier

SYS_096 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_096
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_096)