Achieving sustainable performance in a data-driven agriculture supply chain: A review for research and applications

Sustainability Perception of Local Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Consumers’ Attitude: A New Italian Perspective

“…However, the greater problem with these technologies is the high cost of implementation, which is rewarded only if the production is quite big [115]. Furthermore, incentives for technological resources are scarce, especially for the sustainability of the supply chain [107]. On the other hand, if PDO and/or PGI producers would implement this technology in association form, informed and conscious consumers may pay a greater price for their product.…”

“…A considerable option, which can support and develop both local production and consumption is the Blockchain technology. In fact, this can improve the communication, the coordination, and the cooperation between the nodes of the supply chain (including consumers) [106,107] by developing a sustainable agriculture supply chain [108]. This technology can be used to improve the monitoring of both socio-economic and environmental sides of the processes [107].…”

“…In fact, this can improve the communication, the coordination, and the cooperation between the nodes of the supply chain (including consumers) [106,107] by developing a sustainable agriculture supply chain [108]. This technology can be used to improve the monitoring of both socio-economic and environmental sides of the processes [107]. In fact, it can facilitate and/or amplify controls, which can help prevent different types of fraud (see, for example, the cases of "Italian sounding effect"and fakes on the origin of the products) [109,110].…”

“…From this perspective, the blockchain represents an improvement of modern technological systems for collecting and sharing information, since it would allow, by using the IoT (Internet of Things), to gather the information obtained through these devices, thus becoming their collection infrastructure. In this way the increasing consumers' demand for information can be satisfied by improving the sustainability and the efficiency of the supply chain [107]. In fact, new ICT could increase consumers' trust towards food products and producers [114].…”

“…Small and traditional enterprises, especially, may be a familial business (which are very common in Italy for EVOO), could have weak incentives to implement such an innovative technology. However, these companies could reduce their implementation costs with a collective strategy and with an institutional arrangement by the farmers [31,107,123]. For example, Scuderi et al [121] aims to study an operating model that exploits the blockchain for a product obtained from the transformation of "Arancia Rossa di Sicilia PGI", such as blood-orange juice.…”