Climate change will have an impact on natural resources, water being one of them, affecting the availability of water including increasing the intensity of floods and droughts.

Based on experiments to bring about comprehensive crop insurance coverage over the last 50 years, the Indian government introduced a new crop insurance program, called Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), in April 2016.

Extreme weather causes substantial damage to livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally and are projected to become more frequent in the coming decades as a result of climate change.

Extreme weather events cause considerable damage to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally.

The paper explores the spread of crop insurance in India and analyzes the factors affecting the demand for crop insurance. The study also assesses the impact of crop insurance on the rice yields of smallholder rice producers.

Determining farmers’ real demand for crop insurance is difficult, especially in developing countries, where there is a lack of formal financial sector integration and a high reliance on informal risk mitigation options.

Farmers in India are increasingly exposed to climate change and natural disasters, causing extreme hardship. Anticipating the possibility of such calamities, farmers underinvest in productivity-enhancing technologies.

It is widely recognized that local management of common pool resources can be more efficient and more effective than private markets or top-down government management, especially in remote rural communities in which the institutions necessary for

This report summarizes results from qualitative research on a picture-based insurance solution to improve agricultural risk management.

In rainfed production systems throughout India, agricultural activities are dependent upon the summer monsoon, and any aberration in monsoon rainfall patterns can have severe consequences for rice production.

Financial instruments such as savings, loans, and insurance are critical tools in managing risk for smallholder farmers across the developing world.

Production risk is pervasive in agriculture, yet smallholder farmers lack access to quality insurance.

Risk and risk preferences are considered as important drivers on farm management, crop choice, and land use decisions. A farmer’s choice of risk management strategies is of vital importance for the viability and continuation of the farm business.

The frequency of natural disasters, especially storms and floods, has been increasing globally over the last several decades.

Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for catastrophic crop damage.

The study explores the diffusion process of innovators, early adopters, and late adopters of agricultural technologies.

This dataset serves to shed light on the feasibility of picture-based crop insurance (PBI), which is a new way of delivering affordable and easy-to-understand crop insurance, using farmers’ smartphone pictures to minimize the costs of loss verific

Using crowdsourced near-surface remote sensing imagery to monitor winter wheat phenology and identify damage events in NW India.