Using smartphone technology to introduce affordable high-quality crop insurance

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CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets. 2017. Using smartphone technology to introduce affordable high-quality crop insurance. Reported in Policies, Institutions, and Markets Annual Report 2017. Innovations.

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Low-cost insurance products that assess crop damage using pictures taken by farmers themselves through inexpensive regular smartphone cameras are being developed and tested by an IFPRI-led consortium.

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