Remote sensing data for managing climate risks: Index-based insurance and growth related applications for smallhold-farmers in Ethiopia
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2014.09.002 2212-0963/ 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +43 2236 807 517; fax: +43 2236 807 466. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S. Hochrainer-Stigler), [email protected] (M. van der Velde), [email protected] (S. Fritz), [email protected] ( Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler ⇑, Marijn van der Velde, Steffen Fritz, Georg Pflug
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