scholarly journals Meeting Changing Customer Requirements in Food and Agriculture Through the Application of Blockchain Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ushnish Sengupta ◽  
Henry Michael Kim
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Product Recalls ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
Industry Associations

This research summarizes the implementation of blockchain technology in the food and agriculture industry in Canada. Our research indicates that blockchain solutions are an existing and proven set of technologies. We also describe how blockchain based supply chain traceability information has many more benefits than its current use for food safety and product recalls. We recommend that costs for development of blockchain based solutions should also be distributed across stakeholders, and apportioned by the relevant industry associations. Our research indicates that adoption of blockchain technology in agriculture will achieve critical mass earlier when the industry applies a consortium approach, in a regulatory environment that is supported by government. This report also makes recommendations relevant to the integration of blockchain for end consumers of food.

Food Supply Chain Traceability by Using Blockchain Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 2630-2636
Author(s):  
Anupam Sharma ◽  
Deepika Jhamb ◽  
Amit Mittal
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Agriculture Industry

In the digitized world, everything and products are being designed and used with the help of advanced technologies. The Agriculture industry is not an exception; Walmart has started tackling food safety by using blockchain technology in the supply chain. As agriculture is one of the most influential sectors for the world economy and has also a great impact on the livelihood of the people. As the agriculture industry is growing globally, it is difficult to keep an eye on the information of the whole food supply chain management. So be able to increase the transparency, food safety and customer satisfaction digitalization of food is the need of the hour. In context to Indian economy very little research has been done in the area of addressing farmer’s problem by using blockchain technology. This research will help in addressing the major issues of traceability, transparency and quality and trust in food supply chain management and the hybridisation of agriculture field by using blockchain technology. This new technology has led to new products and new methods to organise the supply chain in an efficient way and analyze the blockchain framework for the traceability of products. This study aims to find out the challenges and issues faced by the farmers in the food supply chain and to propose the relevant efficient and transparent solutions that will benefit farmers as well as customers in the long run.

scholarly journals FoodSQRBlock: Digitizing food production & supply chain with blockchain & QR code in the cloud

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somdip Dey ◽  
Suman Saha ◽  
Amit Singh ◽  
Klaus D. Mcdonald-Maier
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Production System ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Production Data ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Large Scale Integration ◽  
Scale Integration ◽  
Food Production System

<div><div><div><p>Food safety is an important issue in today’s world. Traditional agri-food production system doesn’t offer easy traceability of the produce at any point of the supply chain, and hence, during a food-borne outbreak, it is very difficult to sift through food production data to track produce and origin of the outbreak. In recent years, blockchain based food production system has resolved this challenge, however, none of the proposed methodologies makes the food production data easily accessible, traceable and verifiable by consumers or producers using mobile/edge devices. In this paper, we propose FoodSQRBlock (Food Safety Quick Response Block), a blockchain technology based framework, which digitizes the food production information, and makes it easily accessible, traceable and verifiable by the consumers and producers by using QR codes. We also propose a large scale integration of FoodSQRBlock in the cloud to show the feasibility and scalability of the framework, and experimental evaluation to prove that.</p></div></div></div>

Improving Opportunities in Healthcare Supply Chain Processes via the Internet of Things and Blockchain Technology

2021 ◽  
pp. 1635-1654
Author(s):  
Raja Jayaraman ◽  
Khaled Salah ◽  
Nelson King
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Chain Process ◽  
Product Recalls ◽  
Chain Processes ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Compromise Patient Safety ◽  
Supply Chain Process ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Despite key advances in healthcare informatics and management, little progress to address supply chain process-related problems has been made to date. Specifically, key healthcare supply chain processes include product recalls, monitoring of product supply shortages, expiration, and counterfeits. Implementing and executing these processes in a trusted, secure, efficient, globally accessible and traceable manner is challenging due to the fragmented nature of the healthcare supply chain, which is prone to systemic errors and redundant efforts that may compromise patient safety and impact health outcomes adversely. Blockchain, combined with the Internet of things (IoT), is an emerging technology that can offer a practical solution to these challenges. Accordingly, IoT blockchain offers a superior way to track and trace products via a peer-to-peer distributed, secure, and shared ledger of the blockchain network. This article highlights key challenges related to healthcare supply chains, and illustrates how IoT blockchain technologies can play a role in overcoming these challenges now and in the near future.

scholarly journals Blockchain in Agriculture Traceability Systems: A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Demestichas ◽  
Nikolaos Peppes ◽  
Theodoros Alexakis ◽  
Evgenia Adamopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
Commercial Applications

Food holds a major role in human beings’ lives and in human societies in general across the planet. The food and agriculture sector is considered to be a major employer at a worldwide level. The large number and heterogeneity of the stakeholders involved from different sectors, such as farmers, distributers, retailers, consumers, etc., renders the agricultural supply chain management as one of the most complex and challenging tasks. It is the same vast complexity of the agriproducts supply chain that limits the development of global and efficient transparency and traceability solutions. The present paper provides an overview of the application of blockchain technologies for enabling traceability in the agri-food domain. Initially, the paper presents definitions, levels of adoption, tools and advantages of traceability, accompanied with a brief overview of the functionality and advantages of blockchain technology. It then conducts an extensive literature review on the integration of blockchain into traceability systems. It proceeds with discussing relevant existing commercial applications, highlighting the relevant challenges and future prospects of the application of blockchain technologies in the agri-food supply chain.

scholarly journals FOOD SAFETY IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Sławomir Jarka
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Food Production System

The purpose of the article is to determine the importance of blockchain technology in food supply chain management. A practical reference to the adopted research aim was to indicate the usefulness of blockchain technology to build trust between food chain stakeholders. Research shows that the properties of blockchain technology can enable it to solve many problems and shortcomings of the current food production system. Its added value is primarily a significant increase in transparency of operations among all stakeholders using big data in all parts of the food chain.

Supply Chain Management for Agri Foods Using Blockchain Technology

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-69
Author(s):  
Niranjan Dandekar ◽  
Amit Dua ◽  
Manik Lal Das ◽  
Viral A. Shah
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Fair Share ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right

The agricultural supply chain consists of many participants like producer (generally farmer), consumer (people who buy the product and consume them), wholesalers, and retailers. This system consists of many levels of mediator parties as well which have different policies of the commission. Due to the difference in these policies, the producers do not get their fair share of price. Due to the varying prices, consumers also suffer as they do not get the right quality of the product for the right price. There are no central records maintained regarding the transactions between the participants which could lead to many serious problems. To tackle the above-mentioned issues, we need a holistic approach that can provide solutions to most of the above issues. Here, blockchain-based solution can be used to achieve traceability (we can trace the whereabouts of the product, the origin of the product, etc.), transparency (so that a sense of trust is achieved), fairness (by removing the intermediaries), assurance of food safety and pricing (so that nobody has to bear the loss).

scholarly journals Blockchain-Based Rice Supply Chain Traceability to Ensure Rice Quality and Food Safety

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Tao ◽  
Adnan Iftekhar ◽  
Zhenyu Cai ◽  
Xiaohui Cui
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Quality Information ◽  
World Population ◽  
Rice Quality ◽  
Industry Chain ◽  
Traceability System ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Critical Nodes

Rice is the grain feeds more than half of the world population. It is an important staple food provides twenty percent of the calories consumed worldwide. Food safety affects the health of consumers. Establishing an effective traceability system is one of the primary measures to protect rice quality and food safety. Blockchain-based traceability system has the characteristics of data tamper-proofing, decentralization, and co-governance. This paper proposed a rice traceability scheme based on blockchain technology that selects the critical nodes in the rice industry chain to construct a blockchain network to achieve transparent data sharing. It is meaningful for both enterprises and consumers. It can let enterprises get the real quality information of rice and related raw materials. Consumers can get the true information of rice and rice products to buy safe and healthy food. The scheme is proved feasible by simulating the traceability of the rice supply chain.

scholarly journals FoodSQRBlock: Digitizing food production & supply chain with blockchain & QR code in the cloud

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somdip Dey ◽  
Suman Saha ◽  
Amit Singh ◽  
Klaus D. Mcdonald-Maier
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Production System ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Production Data ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Large Scale Integration ◽  
Scale Integration ◽  
Food Production System

<div><div><div><p>Food safety is an important issue in today’s world. Traditional agri-food production system doesn’t offer easy traceability of the produce at any point of the supply chain, and hence, during a food-borne outbreak, it is very difficult to sift through food production data to track produce and origin of the outbreak. In recent years, blockchain based food production system has resolved this challenge, however, none of the proposed methodologies makes the food production data easily accessible, traceable and verifiable by consumers or producers using mobile/edge devices. In this paper, we propose FoodSQRBlock (Food Safety Quick Response Block), a blockchain technology based framework, which digitizes the food production information, and makes it easily accessible, traceable and verifiable by the consumers and producers by using QR codes. We also propose a large scale integration of FoodSQRBlock in the cloud to show the feasibility and scalability of the framework, and experimental evaluation to prove that.</p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals A Review on Block Chain Technology and Applications in Agriculture and Food Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-99
Author(s):  
Ch. Lakshmi Kumari ◽  
J. Aruna Santhi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Block Chain ◽  
Chain Organization ◽  
Agriculture And Food

Food holds a main role in human beings’ lives and in human civilization in universal across the globe. The food and agriculture division is careful to be a major manager at a worldwide level. The large number and heterogeneity of the stakeholders concerned from different sectors, such as farmers, distributors, retailers, consumers, etc., renders the undeveloped supply chain organization as one of the most composite and demanding tasks. It is the same vast difficulty of the agri products supply chain that limits the growth of global and efficient clearness and traceability solutions. The present paper provides an general idea of the application of block chain technologies for enabling traceability in the agri-food domain. Initially, the paper presents definitions, levels of acceptance, tools and advantages of traceability, accompanied with a brief impression of the functionality and advantages of blockchain technology. It then conducts an widespread literature re-examine on the addition of blockchain into traceability systems. It profits with discussing relevant existing for profit applications, importance the relevant challenges and future prediction of the application of block chain technologies in the agri-food supply chain.

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