System · Rationale

Sheep

Small ruminant species (Ovis aries) raised for meat, milk, wool, and household assets, exposed to heat stress, drought-driven feed and water scarcity, and shifting disease distribution.

Definition source: AGROVOC: sheep

Synonyms

ovine

Broader

Small ruminant

Narrower

none

Relations

emits Methane

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_104 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_104
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_104)