Satellite-based vegetation health indices as a criteria for insuring against drought-related yield losses

R Bokusheva, F Kogan, I Vitkovskaya, S Conradt… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper considers the use of indices built on the basis of remote-sensing data for crop
insurance purposes. In our analysis, we compare the capacity of two satellite-based …

Efficacy of weather index insurance for mitigation of weather risks in agriculture: An integrative review

P Singh, G Agrawal - International Journal of Ethics and Systems, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review research on weather index insurance (WII)
for mitigating the weather risk in agriculture and to identify research gaps in current available …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping weather risk–a multi-indicator analysis of satellite-based weather data for agricultural index insurance development in semi-arid and arid zones of …

S Eltazarov, I Bobojonov, L Kuhn, T Glauben - Climate Services, 2021 - Elsevier
Index insurance has been introduced as a solution to tackle several challenges that prevail
in the agricultural insurance sector of developing countries. One of the main implementation …

Can satellite‐based weather index insurance improve the hedging of yield risk of perennial non‐irrigated olive trees in Spain?

W Kölle, A Martínez Salgueiro… - Australian Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Olive oil yields fluctuate strongly due to their dependence on sufficient precipitation. An
interesting option to hedge the yield risk in olive cultivation could be satellite‐based weather …

Climate insurance for agriculture in Europe: On the merits of smart contracts and distributed ledger technologies

R Schwarze, O Sushchenko - Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate insurance has become a crucial issue due to the increasing number of climate-
related catastrophic events and the associated losses for the economy in general and …

[HTML][HTML] The role of crop classification in detecting wheat yield variation for index-based agricultural insurance in arid and semiarid environments

S Eltazarov, I Bobojonov, L Kuhn, T Glauben - … and Sustainability Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing availability of open-source and high-quality satellite data has facilitated
market developments in the index insurance sector. So far, research and industry spheres …

Using copulas for rating weather index insurance contracts

R Bokusheva - Journal of Applied Statistics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study develops a methodology for a copula-based weather index insurance design.
Because the copula approach is better suited for modeling tail dependence than the …

[PDF][PDF] Yield trend estimation in the presence of farm heterogeneity and non-linear technological change

S Conradt, R Bokusheva… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2014 - research-collection.ethz.ch
An adequate representation of the technological trend component of yield time series is of
crucial importance for the successful design of risk management instruments. However, for …

Improving the effectiveness of weather-based insurance: an application of copula approach

R Bokusheva - 2014 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
The study develops the methodology for a copula-based weather index insurance rating. As
the copula approach is better suited for modeling tail dependence than the standard linear …

A bootstrap simulation for comparison of group risk plan and multi-peril crop insurance policy

VA Sutomo, D Kusumaningrum, R Anisa… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Agricultural insurance is one of the solutions for farmers to avoid risks such as climate
change, pest, disease and price fall which increase the risk of crop failure. Indonesian …