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Using digital repeat photography to strengthen seasonal monitoring in Ethiopia’s R4 Rural Resilience Initiative

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Title Using digital repeat photography to strengthen seasonal monitoring in Ethiopia’s R4 Rural Resilience Initiative
 
Creator Dejene Aredo, Samson
Kramer, Berber
 
Subject resilience
food security
agriculture
climate change
 
Description This paper discusses the feasibility of applying a near-surface remote sensing approach in the index insurance component of the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative in Ethiopia. Specifically, we test a prototype for using smartphone images of insured fields (or ‘picture-based insurance’) to monitor crops and manage basis risk in R4 insurance policies. We find that the proposed prototype, in which R4 agents send in images of crops grown by farmers in their communities, is feasible. Further, we find that crop losses are not only caused by droughts, which are covered by R4 index insurance products, but also by other perils such as pests or disease, which are not easily captured by index insurance. Despite limited smartphone penetration and current challenges in internet coverage, the near-surface remote sensing approach appears valuable and feasible in the context of the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative in Ethiopia.
 
Date 2020-12-21
2021-01-29T16:26:14Z
2021-01-29T16:26:14Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Dejene Aredo S, Kramer B. 2020. Using digital repeat photography to strengthen seasonal monitoring in Ethiopia’s R4 Rural Resilience Initiative. CCAFS Working Paper no. 342. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/111050
 
Language en
 
Relation CCAFS Working Paper
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 38 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security