The feasibility of picture-based crop insurance (PBI): Smartphone pictures for affordable crop insurance

This paper describes and tests the feasibility of Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI), a new way to deliver affordable and easy-to-understand insurance. Under PBI, loss assessments are based on damage visible from a time-series of pictures taken by the farmer using regular smartphones. PBI aims at bo...

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Autores principales:	Ceballos, Francisco, Kramer, Berber, Robles, Miguel
Formato:	Conference Paper
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	International Association of Agricultural Economists 2018
Materias:	insurance risk management crops losses social protection capacity development smallholders assessment crop insurance photography
Acceso en línea:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145896