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Kraft, Sarah Katharina ; Kellner, Florian

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

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

Date of publication of this fulltext: 01 Jul 2022 09:00
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.52046

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Abstract

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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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleSustainability
Publisher:MDPI
Volume:14
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:13
Page Range:p. 8044
Date1 July 2022
InstitutionsBusiness, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre > Lehrstuhl für Controlling und Logistik (Prof. Dr. Andreas Otto)
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10.3390/su14138044DOI
Keywordssustainability; cocoa; blockchain; supply chain; transparency
Dewey Decimal Classification300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-520462
Item ID52046

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