Ceballos, Francisco; Kramer, Berber; Robles, Miguel - In: Development engineering 4 (2019), pp. 2-14
Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for … catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) as a low-cost tool to improve … coverage. PBI verifies insurance claims using smartphone pictures of insured plots, taken by farmers themselves, to minimize …