Journal
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 32, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100604
Keywords
Blockchain; Supply chains; Smallholders; Trust; Cooperatives; Contracts
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- Center for Digital Agriculture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Blockchain technology has the potential to address trust and equity issues in smallholder agricultural development, with applications like BanQu providing verified financial identities for smallholders. However, blockchain alone is not the sole solution to all the challenges faced by the smallholder farming sector.
Blockchain technology has the potential to reduce the need for trust and to ensure accountability and equity in smallholder agricultural development. We present two applications - one already in progress and one hypothetical - using blockchain to address market failures in the smallholder sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, we explore BanQu, a blockchain-based platform used by Anheuser-Busch InBev to create verified financial identities for smallholders along the supply chain. Second, we discuss a hypothetical blockchain application to improve the reliability of actors within smallholder dairy cooperatives. Blockchain applications in smallholder agriculture could be transformative, serving as substitutes for trust, but alone blockchain is not a solution to the multiple challenges facing the smallholder farming sector.
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