Blockchain for agriculture and food : Findings from the pilot study

Ge, Lan; Brewster, Christopher; Spek, J.C.; Smeenk, Anton; Top, J.L.; Diepen, Frans van; Klaase, Bob; Graumans, Conny; Wildt, Marieke de Ruyter de

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“…(OriginTrail 2018). Also, the project "blockchain for agri-food" developed a proof-of-concept blockchain-based application about table grapes from South Africa (Ge, et al 2017). A framework for greenhouse farming with enhanced security, based on blockchain technology, is proposed in (Patil, et al 2017).…”

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“…Table 2 lists potential benefits and existing barriers for the use of blockchain in agriculture and the food supply chain, as identified in Section 5 and Sections 6.1-6.5 respectively, as well as in (Chang, Iakovou and Shi 2019), (Pearson, et al 2019). A case study in the Netherlands revealed that SME lack the required size, scale or know-how needed, in order to invest in blockchain by themselves (Ge, et al 2017). Table 2: Potential benefits and existing barriers for the use of blockchain in agriculture.…”

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The rise of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chains

Kamilaris

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Prenafeta-Boldú

2019

Trends in Food Science & Technology

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Blockchain is an emerging digital technology allowing ubiquitous financial transactions among distributed untrusted parties, without the need of intermediaries such as banks. This article examines the impact of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chain, presents existing ongoing projects and initiatives, and discusses overall implications, challenges and potential, with a critical view over the maturity of these projects. Our findings indicate that blockchain is a promising technology towards a transparent supply chain of food, with many ongoing initiatives in various food products and food-related issues, but many barriers and challenges still exist, which hinder its wider popularity among farmers and systems. These challenges involve technical aspects, education, policies and regulatory frameworks.

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Section: Food Integritymentioning

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Section: Challenges and Open Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The rise of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chains

Kamilaris

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Prenafeta-Boldú

2019

Trends in Food Science & Technology

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“…Although all of the papers are focused on the food supply chain, the food categories are slightly different. Most of the papers focused on agri-food supply chain in general [17,22,28,[55][56][57][58][59][60][61]. A few papers used more specific food supply chains, such as Halal supply chain [62], tilapia supply chain [63], and rice supply chain [64].…”

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A Content-Analysis Based Literature Review in Blockchain Adoption within Food Supply Chain

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one out of 10 people get sick from eating contaminated food. Complex food production process and globalization make food supply chain more delicate. Many technologies have been investigated in recent years to address food insecurity and achieve efficiency in dealing with food recalls. One of the most promising technologies is Blockchain, which has already been used successfully in financial aspects, such as bitcoin, and it is attracting interests from food supply chain organizations. As blockchain has characteristics, such as decentralization, security, immutability, smart contract, it is therefore expected to improve sustainable food supply chain management and food traceability. This paper applies a content-analysis based literature review in blockchain adoption within food supply chain. We propose four benefits. Blockchain can help to improve food traceability, information transparency, and recall efficiency; it can also be combined with Internet of things (IoT) to achieve better efficiency. We also propose five potential challenges, including lack of deeper understanding of blockchain, technology difficulties, raw data manipulation, difficulties of getting all stakeholders on board, and the deficiency of regulations.

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“…The technology is also considered and used in other fields, for example, it has been used in financial services such as online payment [16] and has been considered in other services such as smart contracts [17] and public services [18]. The Dutch Ministry of Agriculture is currently running a project called Blockchain for Agrifood that aims to explore the potential of blockchain technology in agriculture [19]. Blockchain is also used by the social enterprise "Provenance" (www.provenance.org) in the UK to record and validate certificates in agriculture supply chains.…”

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A Blockchain-based Service Provider Validation and Verification Framework for Healthcare Virtual Organization

Hussen

2018

UHD J SCI TECH

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Virtual organization and blockchain are two newly emerging technologies that researchers are exploring their potentials to solve many information and communication technology unaddressed problems and challenges. Health care is one of the sectors that are very dynamic and it is in need of constant improvement in the quest to better the quality of cares and reduce cost. One of the hotline of research in the sector is the use of information and communication technology to provide health care and this is where the concept of virtual healthcare is relevant. In virtual healthcare patients and care providers are collaborating in virtual settings where two of the most difficult challenges are verifying and validating the identity of the communicating parties and the information exchanged. In this paper we propose a conceptual framework using blochchain technology to address the health care provider and record verification and validation issue. The framework is specific to healthcare systems developed based on Virtual Breeding Environment and Virtual Organization. We outline and explain each step in the framework and demonstrate its applicability in a simple healthcare scenario. This paper contributes towards the continuing effort to address user identity and information verification and validation issues in virtual settings in general and in healthcare in specific.

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Blockchain for agriculture and food : Findings from the pilot study

Abstract: 1 Furthermore, the project explored issues regarding the relevance, applicability and implications of BCT for the agrifood sector through literature study and stakeholder consultation.

Cited by 114 publications

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The rise of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chains

The rise of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chains

A Content-Analysis Based Literature Review in Blockchain Adoption within Food Supply Chain

A Blockchain-based Service Provider Validation and Verification Framework for Healthcare Virtual Organization

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