Use Cases
Climate change and wildfires drive ozone levels up. Rising ozone levels silently drive crop yields down.
Each region faces its own seasonal ozone pattern. We support agricultural decision-makers with insights that improve profitability and reduce risk.
Farmers
Instead of relying on unsystematic, single-season field trials, our online tool supports farmers in making informed decisions.
Crop Choice
We provide insights for up to 18 crops on ozone-induced yield losses, based on local ozone levels and patterns, for the current season and the next 10 years.
Planting Window Optimisation
We identify when peak ozone periods occur during the year, so the farmer could adjust planting windows accordingly. If possible, ozone-sensitive crops should be chosen outside peak periods, and ozone-tolerant crops should be selected during periods of elevated ozone levels.
Ozone Mitigation
We identify the periods in the season when ozone damage to crops is highest. This information helps farmers determine the necessity, feasibility, and cost-effectiveness of various mitigation measures, such as adjusting crop rotation and planting schedules or modifying irrigation and nitrogen regimes.
Competitiveness Analysis for Market Entries
We reveal how ozone damage to crops varies by region, enabling farmers to assess their competitiveness within the same country, within specific free trade areas (e.g. EU-Mercosur, USMCA, RCEP, AfCFTA), or even across the global market.
Business Viability
We reveal how ozone damage to crops is projected to change in the future, enabling farmers to evaluate the long-term profitability and viability of their businesses against the backdrop of worldwide changing ozone patterns.
Parametric Crop Insurance
Instead of inspecting fields and crops after damaging events, parametric crop insurance uses measurable parameters such as rainfall levels, temperature extremes, and wind speeds.
If a parameter exceeds a predefined threshold, a payout to the farmer is automatically triggered. Ozone is an invisible chronic stressor that silently damages crops. While this damage is well established in academic literature, it is generally not covered in crop insurance – even though it is an emerging and in many regions relevant yield-reducing factor.
Integrating ozone data into parametric crop insurance enhances the insurer’s product appeal to farmers and provides a distinct competitive advantage over other offers on the insurance market. Furthermore, our data could help lower false-positive payouts for insurers and lower the basis risk for farmers.
A relatively warm and dry season may trigger parametric insurance payouts. However, plant stomata close under these conditions, which reduces ozone uptake. This effect can mitigate ozone-induced yield losses typical for normal seasons, potentially leaving final yields acceptable for the farmer.
Similarly, a low-ozone season, caused by favourable wind patterns or reduced wildfire activity, could improve overall crop health and the “heat stress” may not actually damage the crop as expected, resulting in a false-positive payout if ozone data is not included as a parameter.
A relatively warm and dry season may trigger parametric insurance payouts. However, plant stomata close under these conditions, which reduces ozone uptake. This effect can mitigate ozone-induced yield losses typical for normal seasons, potentially leaving final yields acceptable for the farmer.
Similarly, a low-ozone season, caused by favourable wind patterns or reduced wildfire activity, could improve overall crop health and the “heat stress” may not actually damage the crop as expected, resulting in a false-positive payout if ozone data is not included as a parameter.
Banks
Our product supports decision-making in agricultural credit and investment risk pricing.
Banks can assess whether local ozone patterns may quietly reduce a farmer’s income by 5 to 15% over the next 10 to 20 years – or, conversely, whether low ozone levels around a farm could create a structural advantage and reliable income.
This allows banks and other financial institutions to more accurately price risk and tailor financial products to account for environmental factors that have been previously overlooked.
Investors and
Pension Funds
Our solutions offer value to investors and companies through two financial applications.
Reporting and Disclosure:
Our product makes ozone damage a measurable climate-related
financial risk under frameworks such as TCFD and ISSB. These frameworks require companies to identify, quantify, and disclose climate-related risks in a way investors can compare and audit. It supports decision-making and reduces financial investment risks.
‘Economic Moat’ Analysis:
We assess the structural advantage or disadvantage of farms and
agricultural companies based on local ozone-induced yield losses, transforming this data into a financial metric and allowing this factor to be accurately priced into investment decisions. We provide data covering the past, the current season, and the next 20 years.
Seed Companies
Our solutions offer value to investors and companies through two financial applications.
AgTech Data Platforms
Ag-tech and satellite data platforms provide farmers with digital tools for crop managing. Our data could be integrated directly through APIs to add an “ozone-induced yield-loss” layer.
