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Kraft, Sarah Katharina ; Kellner, Florian

Can Blockchain Be a Basis to Ensure Transparency in an Agricultural Supply Chain?

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Kraft, Sarah Katharina und Kellner, Florian (2022) Can Blockchain Be a Basis to Ensure Transparency in an Agricultural Supply Chain? Sustainability 14 (13), S. 8044.

DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.52046

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Many supply chains within developing countries lack transparency and are fraught with fraud, corruption, and a substantial number of intermediaries. For several decades, the cocoa sector has faced multiple social, economic, and environmental challenges, some of which include the issue of child labor and very low incomes for farmers, leading to poor living conditions. Blockchain technology has a ...

Many supply chains within developing countries lack transparency and are fraught with fraud, corruption, and a substantial number of intermediaries. For several decades, the cocoa sector has faced multiple social, economic, and environmental challenges, some of which include the issue of child labor and very low incomes for farmers, leading to poor living conditions. Blockchain technology has a high potential to reduce—or completely eradicate—some of these hurdles. In this article, we present a blockchain-based solution based on the open-source framework Hyperledger Fabric for the cocoa supply chain to promote transparency and reduce fraud. In doing so, we explicitly describe how farmers can be directly integrated into the whole blockchain solution considering the limited infrastructure, knowledge, and technologies available to them. Since about 70% of all cocoa worldwide is produced in West Africa, this case study uses the cocoa sector in Ghana as an example.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftSustainability
VerlagMDPI
Open Access ArtGold (ohne APC)
Band14
Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels13
SeitenbereichS. 8044
Datum1 Juli 2022
Veröffentlichungsdatum01 Jul 2022 09:00
InstitutionenWirtschaftswissenschaften > Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre > Lehrstuhl für Controlling und Logistik (Prof. Dr. Andreas Otto)
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WertTyp
10.3390/su14138044DOI
Stichwörter / Keywordssustainability; cocoa; blockchain; supply chain; transparency
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-520462
Dokumenten-ID52046

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