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Using smartphone technology to introduce affordable high-quality crop insurance

Low-cost insurance products that assess crop damage using pictures taken by farmers themselves through inexpensive regular smartphone cameras are being developed and tested by an IFPRI-led consortium.

Main Author: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets
Format: Informe técnico
Language:Inglés
Published: 2017
Subjects:
farmers
technology
development
rural development
quality
insurance
systems
damage
agrifood systems
crop insurance
products
cameras
crop damage
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/123678
Summary:Low-cost insurance products that assess crop damage using pictures taken by farmers themselves through inexpensive regular smartphone cameras are being developed and tested by an IFPRI-led consortium.

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