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Picture-based crop monitoring adopted by six institutions (private-sector insurance companies and associated partners) to improve agricultural insurance and financing services in India, Kenya and Ethiopia

Picture-Based Insurance provides affordable high-quality crop insurance by using smartphone images of smallholders’ crops. PIM research has led to large-scale testing and adoption of picture-based crop monitoring by private-sector insurance companies and associated partners HDFC ERGO General Insuran...

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Main Author: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets
Format: Case Study
Language:Inglés
Published: 2020
Subjects:
agriculture
research
farmers
crops
smallholders
monitoring
resilience
institutions
financing
quality
insurance
services
adoption
africa
government
testing
crop insurance
companies
agricultural insurance
scale
crop monitoring
initiative
case studies
agrifood systems
rural development
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121629
Summary:Picture-Based Insurance provides affordable high-quality crop insurance by using smartphone images of smallholders’ crops. PIM research has led to large-scale testing and adoption of picture-based crop monitoring by private-sector insurance companies and associated partners HDFC ERGO General Insurance (India), Dvara E-Registry (India), Government of India, ACRE Africa (Kenya), R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (Ethiopia) and Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) (India, Kenya), creating opportunities to strengthen crop insurance, financing and agro-advisories for millions of farmers.

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