An Ethereum-Based Distributed Application for Enhancing Food Supply Chain Traceability

Kechagias, Evripidis P.; Gayialis, Sotiris P.; Papadopoulos, Georgios A.; Papoutsis, Georgios

doi:10.3390/foods12061220

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“…Blockchain technology presents a promising solution to enhance food safety in global supply chains by offering transparency, traceability, and immutability. Through the utilization of blockchain, the food industry can effectively address critical issues such as information security, traceability inefficiencies, and the necessity for enhanced transparency (Prashar et al, 2020;Shahid et al, 2020;Kechagias et al, 2023). The decentralized nature of blockchain eliminates the dependence on centralized structures and intermediaries, ensuring data integrity and security (Prashar et al, 2020).…”

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Ensuring Global Food Safety: Integrating Blockchain Technology Into Food Supply Chains

Osato Itohan Oriekhoe,

Bamidele Segun Ilugbusi,

Olawale Adisa

2024

Eng. sci. technol. j.

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This concept paper explores the integration of blockchain technology into food supply chains to enhance global food safety. In recent years, food safety has become a critical concern worldwide, with frequent outbreaks of foodborne illnesses and contamination incidents. Traditional supply chain systems often lack transparency, traceability, and efficiency, leading to challenges in identifying the source of contamination and preventing its spread. Blockchain technology offers a promising solution to these challenges by providing a decentralized, immutable, and transparent ledger system. By recording each transaction and transfer of food products on a blockchain, stakeholders can trace the journey of food items from farm to fork in real-time. This enables rapid identification of contaminated products, facilitating targeted recalls and reducing the scope and impact of foodborne illness outbreaks. Key benefits of integrating blockchain technology into food supply chains include enhanced transparency, increased trust among consumers, improved efficiency in recalls and audits, and opportunities for process optimization and cost reduction. However, successful implementation requires collaboration among stakeholders, investment in infrastructure, and addressing technical and regulatory challenges. This concept paper outlines a strategic framework for implementing blockchain technology in food supply chains, including stakeholder engagement, pilot testing, scalability considerations, and regulatory compliance. By leveraging blockchain technology, we can ensure greater food safety, protect public health, and strengthen confidence in the global food supply chain. Keywords: Food Safety, Blockchain, Technology, Supply.

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Ensuring Global Food Safety: Integrating Blockchain Technology Into Food Supply Chains

Osato Itohan Oriekhoe,

Bamidele Segun Ilugbusi,

Olawale Adisa

2024

Eng. sci. technol. j.

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“…Ethereum’s default cryptocurrency, Ether (ETH), enables secure and open transactions across the entire ecosystem. In addition, the scalability issues it faces, particularly high transaction costs and slow processing times, could limit the use of smart agriculture in high-volume environments [ 19 ]. Hyperledger Fabric: Hyperledger Fabric is an open source, enterprise-grade blockchain platform with a modular design that gives designers and developers more freedom to create and implement smart farming solutions [ 20 ].…”

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Blockchain-Based Smart Farm Security Framework for the Internet of Things

Aliyu,

Liu

2023

Sensors

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Smart farming, as a branch of the Internet of Things (IoT), combines the recognition of agricultural economic competencies and the progress of data and information collected from connected devices with statistical analysis to characterize the essentials of the assimilated information, allowing farmers to make intelligent conclusions that will maximize the harvest benefit. However, the integration of advanced technologies requires the adoption of high-tech security approaches. In this paper, we present a framework that promises to enhance the security and privacy of smart farms by leveraging the decentralized nature of blockchain technology. The framework stores and manages data acquired from IoT devices installed in smart farms using a distributed ledger architecture, which provides secure and tamper-proof data storage and ensures the integrity and validity of the data. The study uses the AWS cloud, ESP32, the smart farm security monitoring framework, and the Ethereum Rinkeby smart contract mechanism, which enables the automated execution of pre-defined rules and regulations. As a result of a proof-of-concept implementation, the system can detect and respond to security threats in real time, and the results illustrate its usefulness in improving the security of smart farms. The number of accepted blockchain transactions on smart farming requests fell from 189,000 to 109,450 after carrying out the first three tests while the next three testing phases showed a rise in the number of blockchain transactions accepted on smart farming requests from 176,000 to 290,786. We further observed that the lesser the time taken to induce the device alarm, the higher the number of blockchain transactions accepted on smart farming requests, which demonstrates the efficacy of blockchain-based poisoning attack mitigation in smart farming.

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“…Although blockchain remains an evolving technology, its applications have been expanded across various sectors, particularly in the food industry [18]. Several studies have explored blockchain applications in the food supply chain domain, seeking to enhance various aspects, including traceability [19][20][21], visibility [22], transparency [23,24], and integrity [25]. These studies have demonstrated that blockchain can enhance the food supply chain and address crucial challenges with its decentralised, transparent, traceable, and immutable features.…”

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Blockchain Traceability for Sustainability Communication in Food Supply Chains: An Architectural Framework, Design Pathway and Considerations

Cao,

Xu,

Bryceson

2023

Sustainability

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The increasing demand for sustainable and ethically sourced food products has highlighted the importance of effective sustainability communication within the food supply chain. Existing sustainability communication approaches encounter limitations such as a lack of standardised frameworks, information overload, greenwashing, and an absence of transparent reporting. These challenges hinder their effectiveness and reliability in communicating sustainability efforts and commitments to businesses and consumers in a food chain. Blockchain technology, with its transparent, traceable, verifiable, and immutable features, offers a promising solution to address these limitations and facilitate effective sustainability communication. This paper explores the benefits of applying blockchain traceability to enhance sustainability communication in food supply chains. Using the system architecture approach, this paper proposes a high-level architectural framework, which can navigate the design and development of a blockchain-enabled solution for food sustainability communication. To assist with the translation of the architectural framework into a tailored solution, this paper further presents an action design pathway and discusses the design considerations around organisation, technology, governance, cost, and the user interface. The discussions and insights offered by this study can guide system developers and business analysts in the design and development of industry-oriented solutions, helping them make informed decisions before and during the design process. This paper contributes to advancing and expanding blockchain applications with a particular focus on sustainability communication in food supply chains.

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An Ethereum-Based Distributed Application for Enhancing Food Supply Chain Traceability

Cited by 19 publications

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Ensuring Global Food Safety: Integrating Blockchain Technology Into Food Supply Chains

Ensuring Global Food Safety: Integrating Blockchain Technology Into Food Supply Chains

Blockchain-Based Smart Farm Security Framework for the Internet of Things

Blockchain Traceability for Sustainability Communication in Food Supply Chains: An Architectural Framework, Design Pathway and Considerations

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