Successful pilot on Index Based Flood Insurance in Indian state of Bihar, informs policy makers and development agencies for scaling
Index-based flood insurance (IBFI), relying on advanced modeling with the use of satellite data, speeded payouts to more than 11,000 flood-affected farm households, benefitting indirectly another 100,000 farmers, who learned from participating neighbors through a crowdsourcing approach.
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| Format: | Case Study |
| Language: | Inglés |
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2019
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121418 |
| Summary: | Index-based flood insurance (IBFI), relying on advanced modeling with the use of satellite data, speeded payouts to more than 11,000 flood-affected farm households, benefitting indirectly another 100,000 farmers, who learned from participating neighbors through a crowdsourcing approach. |
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