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Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21

The CiXPAG project co-organized a workshop in Delhi in November 2019, on the "Effects of air pollution and climate extremes on agriculture and health in South Asia", together with local partners Society for Environment Education & Development (SEED) and Clean Air Asia (CAA). The workshop brought together experts from research and relevant stakeholders to discuss the state-of-knowledge and awareness of combined pollution and climate change impacts on agriculture, and to discuss gaps of knowledge and a roadmap ahead for science, policy and implementation. Some key points brought forward are the need to increase monitoring of ozone, better understand the links between urban and rural areas (both in terms of pollution transport, but also in socio-economic terms), use "airshed-" rather than local approaches for mitigation, to tailor dose-response curves specifically for Indian crop varieties, and to model impacts of different stresses such as heat, water, irrigation and ozone, to identify and prioritize which stresses are most urgent to address. Both urgency, adaptation besides mitigation, and socio-economic and political context for adaptation were pointed out as key issues.