Blockchain Enabled Quality Management in Short Food Supply Chains

Burgess, Patrick; Sunmola, Funlade; Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2022.01.288

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“…Overall GHG emissions were predicted using estimated cargo movement data between states and regions. A local food supply chain generates fewer emissions than a larger supply chain [62]. Availability of transportation data and cargo movement tracking is necessary to accurately calculate the total carbon footprint of a sole product over its entire life cycle.…”

Section: Transportation and Infrastructure Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving UN SDGs in Food Supply Chain Using Blockchain Technology

2023

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Food supply chains are highly distributed, collaborative, heterogeneous, diverse, and varied by product, process, and destination. The global food supply chain (FSC) objective is to maintain a good balance between supply and demand and move products from producer to market. However, sustainability of the FSC has become a major concern as limited resources and increasing population pressure threaten its existence. Supply chain management is an important issue for FSC due to information flow throughout the supply chain. Industry-specific characteristics and extensive integration among multiple actors in an entire supply chain exacerbate this situation. The agri-food sector has one of the lowest rates of information technology penetration for innovation. Over the past thirty years, information and communication technology (ICT) has been introduced into the agricultural and food sectors, helping to improve food production and transportation. However, there are various challenges, such as transparency, accountability, food scandal, trust, and inefficient information flow, that the food supply chain is still facing in reaching sustainable goals. The complexity of food supply systems and the opportunities and challenges faced regarding desired sustainability performance need to be examined to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Blockchain is an emerging and disruptive digital technology that can transform governance and sustainability in integrated food supply chains. It provides a transparent, immutable, and traceable ledger that minimizes anomalies and information fraud, making it a potential solution for designing a transparent, traceable food system. Blockchain can potentially improve the sustainability of the food supply chain by providing a transparent traceability system. Food traceability is important for managing the food supply chain and protecting public health. It allows quick and accurate traceability of contaminated food that causes foodborne illness outbreaks, leading to the withdrawal of contaminated food from markets. Blockchain can achieve traceability, provenance tracking, transparency, and reduce environmental impact in the food supply chain. It also helps in achieving sustainable development goals set by the UN. However, there is no scientific research on blockchain’s contribution to achieving these goals in the food supply chain. Therefore, this article presents a systematic literature review and thematic analysis to study the relationship between FSC sustainability, blockchain, and sustainable development goals.

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Section: Transportation and Infrastructure Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving UN SDGs in Food Supply Chain Using Blockchain Technology

2023

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“…Sustainability depends on several factors, including food shelf life, spoilage rates, transportation distance, and costs associated with production processes along with transportation costs. Food system (re)localisation involves moving food systems back to local areas (Burgess et al, 2022;Kapała, 2022). In this regard, an increasing number of consumers and producers are looking for alternative food systems such as SFSCs (Renting et al, 2003;Kneafsey et al, 2013;Kamble et al, 2020).…”

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Crowdfarming. A public-private crowdfunding campaign to finance sustainable local food systems: a case study of short food supply chains in Madrid

González-Azcárate,

Luis Cruz‐Maceín,

Bardají

2023

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Civic crowdfunding (CiC) and matchfunding (MF) are innovative private-public financing tools that can back projects with positive social and environmental characteristics. The purpose of this study is to analyse the potential opportunities and Challenges of CiC with MF as a policy tool for local governments to finance placebased food initiatives and promote sustainable local food systems. The Matchfunding Madrid-KmRegión case study comprised three CiC calls in which institutional funds supplemented the money raised by crowdfunding campaigns for innovative short food supply chain projects. The results highlight the potential of CiC / MF to help local food project promoters to raise financial resources, as well as learn marketing skills and build a social support base around their projects. With the launch of CiC / MF campaigns, local and regional governments can enable innovative local food producers to launch their projects through community commitment. Further CiC/MF campaigns can support the entrepreneurship of agrifood initiatives in the region of Madrid. To do this, there is a need for more research and the dissemination of good practises

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“…It also helps track the origin and the information related to EVOO by exploring the entire food supply chain. Further, Burgess et al in [43] presented a blockchain-based architecture to enhance the quality management of a short food supply chain. They primarily focused on food relocalization, i.e., initiating an ancient process where more emphasis is given to local food instead of the dominant food-provision system.…”

Section: Food Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain Adoption to Secure the Food Industry: Opportunities and Challenges

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With the growth in food products’ usage, ensuring their quality and safety has become progressively difficult. Specifically, food traceability turns out to be a very critical task for retailers, sellers, consumers, surveillance authorities, and other stakeholders in the food supply chain system. There are requirements for food authenticity verification (correct declaration of cultivation, origin, and variety), quality checks (e.g., justification for higher prices), and preventing food products from fraudsters in the food industry. The ubiquitous and promising technology of blockchain ensures the traceability of food trade networks with high potential and handles the aforementioned issues. Blockchain makes the food industry more transparent at all levels by storing data immutably and enabling quick tracking across the stages of the food supply chain. Hence, commodities, stakeholders, and semi-finished food items can be recognized significantly faster. Motivated by these facts, in this paper, we present an in-depth survey of state-of-the-art approaches to the food industry’s security, food traceability, and food supply chain management. Further, we propose a blockchain-based secure and decentralized food industry architecture to alleviate security and privacy aspects and present a comprehensive solution taxonomy for a blockchain-based food industry. Then, a comparative analysis of existing approaches with respect to various parameters, i.e., scalability, latency, and food quality, is presented, which facilitates the end-user in selecting approaches based on the merits over other approaches. Finally, we provide insights into the open issues and research challenges with concluding remarks.

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Blockchain Enabled Quality Management in Short Food Supply Chains

Cited by 32 publications

References 73 publications

Achieving UN SDGs in Food Supply Chain Using Blockchain Technology

Achieving UN SDGs in Food Supply Chain Using Blockchain Technology

Crowdfarming. A public-private crowdfunding campaign to finance sustainable local food systems: a case study of short food supply chains in Madrid

Blockchain Adoption to Secure the Food Industry: Opportunities and Challenges

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