Remote sensing data for managing climate risks: Index-based insurance and growth related applications for smallhold-farmers in Ethiopia
The aim of most index-based insurance programs is to act as a social security mechanism and to provide defense against social and financial exclusion for people whose existing coping strategies are failing. For such schemes, insurance payouts do not depend on the individual losses but on an index wh...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Climate Risk Management |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096314000308 |