Seeing is believing: Using crop pictures in personalized advisory services

We developed, implemented, and evaluated an innovative personalized advisory service that complements picture-based insurance (PBI), an easy-to-understand low-cost insurance product for visible crop damage. We sent personalized agricultural advice based on real-time observations of crop conditions,...

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Main Authors: Ceballos, Francisco, Foster, Tim, Hufkens, Koen, Jadhav, Arun, Kannan, Samyuktha, Kramer, Berber
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145739
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author Ceballos, Francisco
Foster, Tim
Hufkens, Koen
Jadhav, Arun
Kannan, Samyuktha
Kramer, Berber
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description We developed, implemented, and evaluated an innovative personalized advisory service that complements picture-based insurance (PBI), an easy-to-understand low-cost insurance product for visible crop damage. We sent personalized agricultural advice based on real-time observations of crop conditions, from sowing to harvest, from farmers’ pictures of their insured plots. Such a service can empower data-driven farming through three channels: experts can tar-get messages to a farmer’s individual situation, thus increasing the value and timeliness of the advice; the tangibility of pictures in-creases ownership and take-up of the advice; and the service allows insurers to gather more monitoring data and provide recommendations on how to minimize risk, thus lowering expected insurance payouts.
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spelling CGSpace1457392025-11-06T05:46:32Z Seeing is believing: Using crop pictures in personalized advisory services Ceballos, Francisco Foster, Tim Hufkens, Koen Jadhav, Arun Kannan, Samyuktha Kramer, Berber insurance risk management advisory services agricultural extension crops losses extension activities smallholders assessment photography We developed, implemented, and evaluated an innovative personalized advisory service that complements picture-based insurance (PBI), an easy-to-understand low-cost insurance product for visible crop damage. We sent personalized agricultural advice based on real-time observations of crop conditions, from sowing to harvest, from farmers’ pictures of their insured plots. Such a service can empower data-driven farming through three channels: experts can tar-get messages to a farmer’s individual situation, thus increasing the value and timeliness of the advice; the tangibility of pictures in-creases ownership and take-up of the advice; and the service allows insurers to gather more monitoring data and provide recommendations on how to minimize risk, thus lowering expected insurance payouts. 2018-12-14 2024-06-21T09:04:58Z 2024-06-21T09:04:58Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145739 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133534 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ceballos, Francisco; Foster, Tim; Hufkens, Koen; Jadhav, Arun; Kannan, Samyuktha; and Kramer, Berber. 2018. Seeing Is Believing: Using Crop Pictures in Personalized Advisory Services. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145739
spellingShingle insurance
risk management
advisory services
agricultural extension
crops
losses
extension activities
smallholders
assessment
photography
Ceballos, Francisco
Foster, Tim
Hufkens, Koen
Jadhav, Arun
Kannan, Samyuktha
Kramer, Berber
Seeing is believing: Using crop pictures in personalized advisory services
title Seeing is believing: Using crop pictures in personalized advisory services
title_full Seeing is believing: Using crop pictures in personalized advisory services
title_fullStr Seeing is believing: Using crop pictures in personalized advisory services
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title_short Seeing is believing: Using crop pictures in personalized advisory services
title_sort seeing is believing using crop pictures in personalized advisory services
topic insurance
risk management
advisory services
agricultural extension
crops
losses
extension activities
smallholders
assessment
photography
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145739
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