Agricultural insurance — managing risks

Adverse weather events such as drought and excessive rains, storms and hurricanes cause heavy losses to farmers. An EU-funded project has provided support to European and African authorities to help farmers face disasters.

Climate Change and Environment

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Keywords

Drought, rains, farmer, agricultural insurance, risk management, Common Agricultural Policy, crop monitoring, Landsat-TM, vegetation indices, field campaign, Copernicus, downstream services

Project Information

ISAC

Grant agreement ID: 262937

Project closed

Start date 1 January 2011

End date 30 June 2013

Funded under

• Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space

Total cost € 1 656 762,05

EU contribution € 1 250 757,08

Coordinated by

VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V.
Belgium