Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology

Extreme weather causes substantial damage to livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally and are projected to become more frequent in the coming decades as a result of climate change. Index insurance can theoretically help farmers to adapt and mitigate the risks posed by extreme weather events, prov...

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Autores principales: Afshar, Mehdi H., Foster, Tim, Higginbottom, Thomas P., Parkes, Ben, Hufkens, Koen, Mansabdar, Sanjay, Ceballos, Francisco, Kramer, Berber
Formato: Resumen
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: EGU General Assembly 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143207
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author Afshar, Mehdi H.
Foster, Tim
Higginbottom, Thomas P.
Parkes, Ben
Hufkens, Koen
Mansabdar, Sanjay
Ceballos, Francisco
Kramer, Berber
author_browse Afshar, Mehdi H.
Ceballos, Francisco
Foster, Tim
Higginbottom, Thomas P.
Hufkens, Koen
Kramer, Berber
Mansabdar, Sanjay
Parkes, Ben
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Foster, Tim
Higginbottom, Thomas P.
Parkes, Ben
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Mansabdar, Sanjay
Ceballos, Francisco
Kramer, Berber
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description Extreme weather causes substantial damage to livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally and are projected to become more frequent in the coming decades as a result of climate change. Index insurance can theoretically help farmers to adapt and mitigate the risks posed by extreme weather events, providing a financial safety net in the event of crop damage or harvest failure. However, uptake of index insurance in practice has lagged far behind expectations. A key reason is that many existing index insurance products suffer from high levels of basis risk, where insurance payouts correlate poorly with actual crop losses due to deficiencies in the underlying index relationship, contract structure or data used to trigger insurance payouts to farmers.
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spelling CGSpace1432072025-12-08T10:11:39Z Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology Afshar, Mehdi H. Foster, Tim Higginbottom, Thomas P. Parkes, Ben Hufkens, Koen Mansabdar, Sanjay Ceballos, Francisco Kramer, Berber insurance models data remote sensing leaf area index farmers crop yield yield forecasting smallholders extreme weather events livelihoods yields crop modelling Extreme weather causes substantial damage to livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally and are projected to become more frequent in the coming decades as a result of climate change. Index insurance can theoretically help farmers to adapt and mitigate the risks posed by extreme weather events, providing a financial safety net in the event of crop damage or harvest failure. However, uptake of index insurance in practice has lagged far behind expectations. A key reason is that many existing index insurance products suffer from high levels of basis risk, where insurance payouts correlate poorly with actual crop losses due to deficiencies in the underlying index relationship, contract structure or data used to trigger insurance payouts to farmers. 2021-04-01 2024-05-22T12:12:31Z 2024-05-22T12:12:31Z Abstract https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143207 en https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050924 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110712 Open Access EGU General Assembly Afshar, Mehdi H.; Foster, Tim; Higginbottom, Thomas P.; Parkes, Ben; Hufkens, Koen; Mansabdar, Sanjay; Ceballos, Francisco; and Kramer, Berber. 2021. Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology. EGU21-9534. EGU General Assembly. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9534
spellingShingle insurance
models
data
remote sensing
leaf area index
farmers
crop yield
yield forecasting
smallholders
extreme weather events
livelihoods
yields
crop modelling
Afshar, Mehdi H.
Foster, Tim
Higginbottom, Thomas P.
Parkes, Ben
Hufkens, Koen
Mansabdar, Sanjay
Ceballos, Francisco
Kramer, Berber
Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology
title Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology
title_full Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology
title_fullStr Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology
title_full_unstemmed Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology
title_short Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology
title_sort overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology
topic insurance
models
data
remote sensing
leaf area index
farmers
crop yield
yield forecasting
smallholders
extreme weather events
livelihoods
yields
crop modelling
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143207
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