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Picture-based crop insurance: Is it feasible? Using farmers’ smartphone pictures to minimize the costs of loss verification

The Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI) project aims to develop a new way of delivering affordable and easy-to-understand crop insurance using farmers’ smartphone pictures to minimize the costs of loss verification. The project, funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Mark...

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Main Authors: Kramer, Berber, Ceballos, Francisco, Hufkens, Koen, Melaas, Eli, Mishra, Azad, Mann, Michael L., Toor, Mann S., Robles, Miguel
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2017
Subjects:
insurance
crops
losses
smallholders
assessment
photography
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148110
Summary:The Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI) project aims to develop a new way of delivering affordable and easy-to-understand crop insurance using farmers’ smartphone pictures to minimize the costs of loss verification. The project, funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), is a partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), HDFC Ergo General Insur-ance, Limited, and researchers from The George Washington Uni-versity, Boston University, and Ghent University.

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