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Blockchain technology in agri-food value chain management: A synthesis of applications, challenges and future research directions
Guoqing Zhao,
Shaofeng Liu,
Carmen Lopez,
Haiyan Lu,
Sebastian Elgueta,
Huilan Chen,
Biljana Mileva Boshkoska
Computers in Industry, Volume: 109, Pages: 83 - 99
Swansea University Author: Guoqing Zhao
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.compind.2019.04.002
Abstract
Agri-food value chain is an area of significant importance because of providing sustainable, affordable, safety and sufficient food, feed, fibre and fuel to consumers, it is critical to ensure these value chains running smoothly and successfully by applying advanced internet technologies. Blockchain...
| Published in: | Computers in Industry |
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| ISSN: | 0166-3615 |
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Elsevier BV
2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62349 |
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Agri-food value chain is an area of significant importance because of providing sustainable, affordable, safety and sufficient food, feed, fibre and fuel to consumers, it is critical to ensure these value chains running smoothly and successfully by applying advanced internet technologies. Blockchain technology is a new digital technological approach underpinned by the Industry 4.0 to ensuring data integrity and preventing tampering and single point failure through offering fault-tolerance, immutability, trust, transparency and full traceability of the stored transaction records to all agri-food value chain partners. This paper used systematic literature network analysis to review the state-of-the-art blockchain technology including its recent advances, main applications in agri-food value chain and challenges from a holistic perspective. The findings suggest that blockchain technology together with advanced information and communication technology and internet of things have been adopted for the improvement of agri-food value chain management in four main aspects: traceability, information security, manufacturing and sustainable water management. Six challenges have been identified including storage capacity and scalability, privacy leakage, high cost and regulation problem, throughput and latency issue, and lack of skills. Based on the critical analysis of literature, research gaps and future research directions are proposed in this paper regarding the applications and challenges of blockchain technology in agri-food value chain management. This study makes contributions to the extant literature in the field of agri-food value chain management by discovering the potential of blockchain technology and its implications for agri-food value chain performance improvements such as food safety, food quality and food traceability. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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83 |
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99 |