Can Blockchain Be a Basis to Ensure Transparency in an Agricultural Supply Chain?

SK Kraft, F Kellner - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many supply chains within developing countries lack transparency and are fraught with
fraud, corruption, and a substantial number of intermediaries. For several decades, the …

Blockchain for Food Supply Chain: Trust, Traceability, and Transparency Enhancement, How Can Africa Benefit?

S Salih, D Mhlanga - The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa: Exploring …, 2023 - Springer
To put it simply, blockchain is a digital ledger that records the transactions of a decentralized
network in which all participants control the databases, and no one can alter the transaction …

Agriculture on the blockchain: Sustainable solutions for food, farmers, and financing

HM Kim, M Laskowski - Supply Chain Revolution, Barrow Books, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
This research explores applications of blockchain across the agricultural sector, beyond the
typical finance use cases. In considering agriculture itself as a chain, a network that reaches …

AgroBLF: blockchain-based framework for smart agriculture

O Bhadra, S Sahoo, R Halder… - Innovations in Systems and …, 2022 - Springer
Agriculture in developing countries faces numerous challenges such as price fluctuation and
non-uniformity, presence of untrusted middlemen in the supply chain, crop wastage due to …

Blockchain for agricultural sector: The case of South Africa

R Mavilia, R Pisani - … Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and …, 2022 - journals.co.za
New technologies are playing a fundamental role in the postmodern era of globalization
where interpersonal interactions at the international level and the exchange of goods …

Blockchain technology in agriculture: digitizing the Iraqi agricultural environment

GF Albaaji, SSV Chandra - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024 - Springer
Despite first being developed to encrypt digital currency, blockchain technology has now
found broad usage in various other industries, including agriculture. This is because …

Blockchain: An alternative to enable traceability in the agricultural supply chain in panama

R Caballero, B Rivera - 2019 7th International Engineering …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently, the large volume of imports, the lack of interest of young people to work in the
agroindustry, the lack of implementation of new technologies and the excessive participation …

[HTML][HTML] Blockchain is not a silver bullet for agro-food supply chain sustainability: Insights from a coffee case study

SL Bager, C Singh, UM Persson - Current Research in Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Information sharing lies at the core of most governance interventions within agro-
food commodity supply-chains, such as certification standards or direct trade relationships …

Technology for social good foundations: A perspective from the smallholder farmer in sustainable supply chains

M Quayson, C Bai, J Sarkis - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The livelihood of smallholder farmers in emerging economies' cocoa supply chain is
substandard because of fraud, exploitation, corruption, deceit, child labor, and financial …

The rise of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chains

A Kamilaris, A Fonts, FX Prenafeta-Boldύ - Trends in food science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Blockchain is an emerging digital technology allowing ubiquitous financial transactions
among distributed untrusted parties, without the need of intermediaries such as banks. This …