The Rise of Blockchain Technology in Agriculture and Food Supply Chains

By Andreas Kamilaris, Agusti Fonts, Francesc X. Prenafeta-Boldu. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2019

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Abstract 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.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Food Science, Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation (2021, methodology): “Through means of blockchain, a technology based on distributed databases of encrypted data, this data can turn into non-modifiable information that accompanies the product and allows for tracing back to the farm that has generated a given outcome (Kamilaris et al., 2019).”
• Blockchain in Agriculture Traceability Systems: A Review (2020, neutral): “In the same context, Kamilaris et al. make an analysis of the blockchain’s impact on the agriculture supply chain, and discuss the overall implications and challenges [95].”
• IoT, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture and Food Industry (2020, neutral): “Blockchain can potentially provide solution to this issue and can assist with implementing food safety, food security, and food integrity measures, while bringing transparency and accountability to the supply chain [118].”
• Leveraging the Internet of Things and Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management (2019, background): “Accordingly, mobile apps are increasingly being used by consumers to scan labels on products in order to locate a product’s history [117].”
• Security and Privacy in Smart Farming: Challenges and Opportunities (2020, background): “Accordingly, the authors in [81] study overall implications, challenges and potential of existing blockchain-based projects in the field.”