Software and Applications
SATWEX - Free desktop platform for easy access and download of daily point-scale temperature and precipitation data.
VEWEX - Open-access access and download of district/county scale vegetation index data (including cropland masks)
KlimALEZ Toolbox - Design index-based climate insurance and analyze their climate risk reduction potential.
Tutorial Videos
Using drones in agriculture: Tutorial video in Uzbek language [English subtitles available]
Agricultural Index Insurance - Introduction for Mongolian wheat farmers [in Mongolian language]
Tutorial FarmPulse App - Introduction to the functions of the Farm Pulse App employing Sentinel-2 and Landsat satellites-based NDVI images for cropland monitoring and MODIS satellite-based NDVI images for index insurance.
Tutorial "SATWEX" - Tutorial on the functions of the Browser Application "SATWEX" by KlimALEZ project.
O'zbek tilidagi versiyasi: https://youtu.be/rf1ScGeOMrw
Scientific Publications
- Egamverdiev, Bekhzod; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor; Kuhn, Lena; Glauben, Thomas (2023) Household resilience capacity and food security: evidence from Kyrgyzstan. Food Security [in press].
- Eltazarov, Sarvarbek; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor; Kuhn, Lena; Glauben, Thomas (2023) Improving risk reduction potential of weather index insurance by spatially downscaling gridded climate data - a machine learning approach Big Earth Data. Big Earth Data [in press].
- Eltazarov, Sarvarbek; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor; Kuhn, Lena; Glauben, Thomas (2023) The role of crop classification in detecting wheat yield variation for index-based agricultural insurance in arid and semiarid environments. Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Indicators [in press].
- Moritz, Laura; Kuhn, Lena; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor (2023) The role of peer imitation in agricultural index insurance adoption: Findings from lab-in-the-field experiments in Kyrgyzstan. Review of Development Economics [in press]
- Kuhn, Lena; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor (2021) The role of risk rationing in rural credit demand and uptake. Lessons from Kyrgyzstan. Agricultural Finance Review 38(1), 1-20.
- Eltazarov, Sarvarbek; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor; Kuhn, Lena; Glauben, Thomas (2021) Mapping weather risk – A multi-indicator analysis of satellite-based weather data for agricultural index insurance development in semi-arid and arid zones of Central Asia. Climate Services 23. 100251
- Kuhn, Lena; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor (2019) Fact Sheet: Index-based Crop Insurance – International Experience and Opportunities for Mongolia. DMKNL Fact Sheets 2019.
- Kuhn, Lena; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor; Glauben, Thomas (2018) Landwirtschaft in Zeiten der Dürre: Wie Digitalisierung ein nachhaltiges Risikomanagement unterstützen kann. IAMO Policy Brief No. 35, Halle (Saale).