The treatment of agriculture has evolved over the lifetime of the IPCC, as tracked by the assessment reports. Efforts to quantify crop yield impacts and mitigation potentials have increased significantly, as has adaptation research. However, there remains a dearth of experimental and observational studies.
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Porter, J., Howden, M. & Smith, P. Considering agriculture in IPCC assessments. Nature Clim Change 7, 680–683 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3404
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