Seeing is believing – Using smartphone camara data by | Nov 10, 2020 Edit digital intervention Digital Intervention Title Digital Intervention Excerpt The “Seeing is Believing” project aims to deliver personalized agricultural advice and insurance services to smallholder farmers in India. Description Visual Text File Edit View Insert Format Tools Table Paragraph HashBarTimes New Roman 12pt This project delivers personalized agricultural advice and insurance services to smallholder farmers across several sites in India. The project’s dedicated smartphone application uses farmers’ own smartphone pictures of visible crop characteristics—“eyes on the ground”—to optimize agronomic decision-making and claims settlement. Through the app, farmers submit geotagged, time-stamped pictures of insured sites from sowing to harvest. In response, they receive timely and relevant agriculture advisories and improved insurance claims settlements. Featured Image Types of Digital Intervention Decision support agriculture Digital advisory Digital analytics and modelling Digital disease monitoring and control Digital Financial Services Digital mechanization Farm management software Market systems Remote sensing Robotics Food system components Aggregation Consumption Distribution Policy Processing Production Food system activities Agricultural extension Agricultural subsidy provision Animal disease management Climate change Crop diseases management Crop production Farm inputs Finance Genetic resources Labor force Livestock production Natural resource management Nutrition information Packaging Post-harvest management Regulation and standards Scientific knowledge Tractor services provision Trade and market information Transport Urbanization Waste management Primary users Extension agents Farmers Financial institutions Government ministries Researchers Traders Intervention inception number of users Intervention current number of users Country/ies of implementation Afghanistan Bangladesh Bolivia Burkina Faso Benin Cameroon China Colombia Costa Rica Côte d’Ivoire El Salvador Ethiopia Ghana Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Italy Jamaica Kenya Malaysia Mali Malawi Mexico Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Pakistan Peru Philippines Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Sri Lanka Tanzania Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Uganda United States of America Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe Region(s) of implementation Africa Asia / Pacific Europe and Central Asia Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East North America Geolocation Address We could not connect to the Google Maps autocomplete service, but you can add an address manually. Add new Evidence of Impact Evidence narrative Visual Text File Edit View Insert Format Tools Table Paragraph HashBarTimes New Roman 12pt - The advisory messages increased knowledge on best agricultural practices by 78% and revealed strong complementarities between PBA (personalized, picture-based advisory) and PBI (picture-based insurance) - India's Department of Agriculture Cooperation and Farmers Welfare is currently partnering with IFPRI to test the approach for India's national crop insurance scheme - 1 article titled, “Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach” was published by the team in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. - 1 article titled, “The feasibility of picture-based insurance (PBI): Smartphone pictures for affordable crop insurance,” was published by the team in Development Engineering. - 1 article titled, "Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India" was published by the team in World Development, with a companion blog: https://www.insuresilience.org/disruptions-to-smallholders-incomes-and-food-security-during-a-national-lockdown-evidence-from-two-crop-insurance-trials-in-india/ - 1 article titled, "From Index to Indemnity Insurance using Farmers' Ground Pictures: The Demand for Picture-Based Crop Insurance" was published as an IFPRI Discussion Paper - 1 needs assessment, titled "Digital technologies for financial inclusion of smallholder farmers: Needs assessment in three states of India" was published as an IFPRI project note. Intervention evidence of economic impact Increased volume of sales Increased yield Increased market access Increased access to credit Increased transaction cost Increased production cost Decreased market access Reduced transaction cost Reduced production cost Received higher product prices Decreased volume of sales I do not know Decreased yield None of the above Intervention evidence of environmental impact Increased efficiency in agro chemical use Increased resilience to climate shocks Increased access to weather information Increased access to agricultural information services in real time Decreased efficiency of agro chemical use Decreased resilience to climate shocks Decreased access to weather information I do not know Decreased access to agricultural information services in real time None of the above Intervention evidence of social impact Increased women participation Decreased women participation Increased youth participation Decreased participation of minority group Improved social capital Increased economic mobility Enhanced social inclusion I do not know Improved social equity None of the above Enhanced social well being Intervention evidence of technical impact Increased technology adoption Improved information dissemination Increased labor demand Increased the need for agricultural extension agents Better support for extension agents Reduced the need for agricultural extension agents Decreased labor demand Displacement of on-farm labor I do not know None of the above Intervention quantitative impact Increased efficiency by 0-25% Increased efficiency by 26-50% Increased efficiency by 51-75% Increased efficiency by 76-100% Decreased efficiency by 0-25% Decreased efficiency by 26-50% Decreased efficiency by 51-75% Decreased efficiency by 76-100% Additional Information Enter URL Add new Submit Intervention File Add new Contact details First Name Last Name Email
