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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 type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Sustainability | ||||
| Publisher: | MDPI | ||||
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| Volume: | 14 | ||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 13 | ||||
| Page Range: | p. 8044 | ||||
| Date | 1 July 2022 | ||||
| Institutions | Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre > Lehrstuhl für Controlling und Logistik (Prof. Dr. Andreas Otto) | ||||
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| Keywords | sustainability; cocoa; blockchain; supply chain; transparency | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-520462 | ||||
| Item ID | 52046 |
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