Insuring crops from space: The potential of satellite-retrieved soil moisture to reduce farmers' drought risk exposure
Crop producers face significant and increasing drought risks. We evaluate whether insurances based on globally and freely available satellite-retrieved soil moisture data can reduce farms' financial drought risk exposure. We design farm individual soil moisture index insurances for wheat, maize...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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