Blockchain for agri-food
From PB’s database
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Blockchain solutions for the agri-food
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Reports on blockchain in agriculture
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First blockchain for supply chain case in late 2015
“We integrated the supply chain onto the same digital network creating a single version of the truth for all parties involved in the diamond trade,” (Founder Leanne Kemp). “We shared records visible across the industry participants.”
The unique identifiers consist of 40 metadata points, the laser inscription on the girdle, and the stone’s four Cs—color, clarity, cut, and carat weight. These digital thumbprints would then be written on the blockchain.
Today, Everledger is powered by IBM Blockchain, which relies on Hyperledger Fabric. Before 2016, Everledger made use of other blockchain technologies, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Eris, and BigchainDB. Hovewer, in July 2016, the first Hyperledger pilot was delivered, according to IBM.
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Agri-food use cases
Commodity trading / trade finance
Traceability for consumer transparency
Derivatives
Land registries
Climate change reporting
Climate change credits
smart farming
Inventory management
Traceability for Food safety
e-Commerce
Regulatory & food safety reporting
fair wages / paiements
encourage local consumption (eg community currencies)
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Connected use cases
Digital Identities & KYC solutions for farmers
Supply Chain, automation, IoT orchestration
Financial solutions: paiement, loans, rewards, credit history, inclusion
Financial solutions: paiement, loans, rewards, credit history
Insurances
Natural capital asset tokenization
Blockchain land titling
Loyalty & reward schemes, collectibles, NFTs
Renewable energy
Carbon trading schemes
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SCM in agriculture with DLT (per stakeholder)
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SCM in agriculture with DLT (per stakeholder)
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Main technologies used
IBM Hyperledger
Ethereum
Ambrosus
VeChain
R3’s Corda (trade finance)
BigchainDB
Stellar
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Initial mapping
Transparency/Traceability
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The traceability case visualized (source: Carrefour)
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Traceability/transparency cases
Traceability for Food safety
Traceability for consumer transparency
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Traceability/transparency cases
Traceability for Food safety
Traceability for consumer transparency
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Traceability/transparency cases
Traceability for Food safety
Traceability for consumer transparency
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Traceability/transparency cases
The Trace module provides the ability for supply chain participants to trace food products from upstream sources to downstream destinations. The detailed tracking information provided by the trace module gives consumers and partners access to a history of agri-foods products' origin and destination.
The Data Entry and Access modules provide the ability to upload, manage, and access data to the blockchain.
The Certification module provides an easy way to manage the entire supply chain. All the modules can strengthen brand trust, increase supply chain efficiency, and improve food safety
Traceability for Food safety
Traceability for consumer transparency
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Farmer Connect (IBM)
Farmer Connect and “Thank my Farmer” app launched in 2020
By IBM and Beyers Koffie, The Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC), ITOCHU Corporation, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE), The J.M. Smucker Company, Rabobank, RGC Coffee, Volcafe, Sucafina and Yara International
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Traceability/transparency cases
Nova Sea Joins Norwegian Seafood Trust to Track Salmon from Feed to Food Using IBM Food Trust Technology (Source)
Traceability for Food safety
Traceability for consumer transparency
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Traceability/transparency cases
SecQuAL is a new 11 member UK consortium that aims to use data and blockchain to reduce food waste and improve food traceability. Lloyd’s Register leads the group, which includes IBM Food Trust, listed food company Cranswick, and the UK’s Food Standards Agency (Source) - July 2021
Traceability for Food safety
Traceability for consumer transparency
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Food Safety in China
The revision of the Food Safety Law imposed stricter controls and supervision on the production and handling of food.
Walmart launched its Food Safety Collaboration Center in Beijing in collaboration with IBM and Tsinghua University to improve the tracking of food using blockchain technology
China’s State Council released a set of guidelines on promoting innovation to establish a smart supply chain that covers major industries by 2020: China also has a need for food safety solutions: remote areas of the country often lack regulation, which has caused issues in the past such as tainted meat and baby formula scandals
Launch of Blockchain Food Safety Alliance: joint effort between IBM, Walmart, China’s Tsinghua University, and the Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com to launch a standardized method of tracking food safety with the help of the blockchain, relying on IBM's Blockchain Platform
IBM Food Trust was launched (focus America and Europe)
2015
2016
Oct 2017
Dec 2017
Nov 2018
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Traceability/transparency cases
the Food Trust Framework (Alibaba) is a consortium whose members want to track food produced in China and guarantee international imports from Australia and New Zealand. Since 2018, members have included:
At the final stage of the supply chain, and in contact with consumers, are the Alibaba supermarkets, which adopt the technology via their channels:
Traceability for Food safety
Traceability for consumer transparency
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Traceability/transparency cases
Blockchain + IoT case
ZhongAn Technology, the tech subsidiary of Chinese Insurtech giant ZhongAn Online, has built a blockchain-powered platform to track the whole process of chicken farming.
In partnership with Wopu, a IoT company in Hangzhou, IoT-enabled anklets are attached to chickens and every aspect of their lives are tracked, from the age and distance walked to the slaughterhouse and logistic providers employed.
All data are recorded in the blockchain and viewable to the consumers from a mobile application. Data collected from the anklets also allow farmers to carry out analytics and improve their rearing methods; a significant breakthrough in farming technology was never possible until the popularization of IoT.
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Carrefour
Carrefour started in 2018 tracking chickens on blockchain
Part of program “Act For Food”
aiming for 270 to 300 supply chains before 2022
Traceability for Food safety
Traceability for consumer transparency
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VeChain
The technical solutions developed by VeChain can track the movement of products inside supply chains (from manufacturer to customer) in a transparent way that certifies their authenticity. To accomplish this, VeChain uses a variety of chips, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) sensors and QR (Quick Response) codes that can broadcast key data about the tracked products.
The launch of the VeChainThor Blockchain that took place on June 30 2018 (prior to this date, VeChain functioned on the Ethereum Blockchain) gave birth to the dual-token economy that is now the beating heart of VeChain. The two cryptocurrencies that were designed to handle the financial load of the system are VET (VeChain Token) and VTHO (VeThor Token). VET can be bought by anyone who wants to invest in VeChain, the company. People who own VET are entitled to automatically receive VTHO, a token that can be sold or used to pay the transaction fees required when adding data onto the VeChainThor Blockchain.
Toolchain = VeChain's Blockchain-as-a-Service ("BaaS") for supply chain
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Traceability/transparency cases
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Traceability/transparency cases
Starting from Q4 in 2020, multiple seafood categories on the KnowSeafood platform will be traced by VeChain ToolChain™, including Norwegian Salmon, North Atlantic Haddock, Peruvian Mahi-Mahi, New England Sea Scallops, Maine Lobster, and many more global species.
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Traceability/transparency cases
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Ambrosus - Dublin
Swiss Food Research is the leading network in Switzerland that connects cutting-edge scientific and innovation projects to the largest agricultural supply chains in the country. An Official Partner of the Federal Government of Switzerland (Swiss Innovation Agency), Swiss Food Research has dedicated Innovation Groups in the areas ready for adoption of Ambrosus technology, such as Seafood, Agricultural Commodities and Perishable Products Packaging. Swiss Food Research collaborates with the largest Swiss food industrial players, such as Buhler Holding AG, Infre SA and Hoegger AG, in addition to the leading Swiss research institutes, such as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), whose Head of the Distributed Computing Lab, Prof Roger Wattenhofer, serves as the Solutions Architect for Ambrosus. Swiss Food Research gives access to the largest Swiss agri-food network.
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ScanTrust - Zug
Example: Rémy Cointreau, DuPont, Liforme Yoga, and Unilever use Scantrust to offer customer assurances of authenticity or protect against grey market products.
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SAP
(March 2019): AUSTIN, Texas — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and Bumble Bee Foods, North America’s largest branded shelf-stable seafood company, announced Bumble Bee Foods is using the SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service to trace the journey of yellowfin tuna from the Indonesian ocean to the dinner table.
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OPTEL - Canada
Founded in 1989, OPTEL is a Certified B Corporation headquartered in Canada, with facilities in the United States, Ireland, India and Brazil, as well as employees worldwide.
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Arc-net - UK
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UN FAO
Main pilotes for transparency/traceability
UNDP and FAO piloting blockchain
Blockchain technology is being piloted under the programme Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture through NDCs and NAPs (SCALA) programme, co-led by FAO and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with funding from Germany’s International Climate Initiative (IKI). The methodology will be applied by digitalizing the value chain for agriculture and food systems and tracking sustainability through Key Data Elements (KDE).
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TE-Food - Budapest
blockchain platform for food supply chain transparency
Tailor made solutions for SMEs and global enterprises
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Auchan
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Connecting Food - France
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Traceability/transparency - other cases
Guala Closures Group and Compellio Group for italian wine
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Traceability/transparency cases
Conclusion for our consortium:
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Initial mapping
Trade finance / shipping
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Trade finance / shipping
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First food shipment on blockchain
first test in 2018 to use blockchain for a soybean shipment
Shandong Bohi Industry Co, Louis Dreyfus, ING, ABN Amro involved with the Easy Trade Connect platform from ING.
The team behind these project joined komgo, a blockchain based trade finance platform
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Trade finance / shipping
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Trade finance / shipping we.trade
opportunity to integrate with IBM owned platforms IBM Food Trust and TradeLens, the joint initiative with Maersk.
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Trade finance / shipping - eTradeConnect
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced in 2018 the official launch of its blockchain trade finance platform eTradeConnect. It was previously known as the Hong Kong Trade Finance Platform. There are also plans to collaborate with we.trade which until now has focused on Europe.
The initial version offers open account trade finance like factoring. But the aim is to expand to other forms of trade finance and beyond banking.
It follows a proof of concept (PoC) started in December 2016 and completed in March 2017. Deloitte ran the PoC, and Ping An’s OneConnect built the latest version with Deloitte providing consultancy.
The original seven banks are ANZ, Bank of China (Hong Kong), Bank of East Asia, DBS Bank (Hong Kong), Hang Seng Bank, HSBC and Standard Chartered. Another five banks joined later. They are the Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of Communications, BNP Paribas, ICBC and Shanghai Commercial.
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Trade finance / shipping - TradeIX
TradeIX, the service provider behind another trade finance than we.trade platform Marco Polo, attracted investment from Accenture
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Trade finance / shipping - TradeLens
TradeLens, a joint initiative between IBM and Maersk that aims to digitize the paperwork in the container shipping industry through blockchain
As of today (mid June 2021) the solution has tracked 42 million container shipments, and digitized 20 million documents.
Over 300 entities are directly connected to the platform, including three of the top five container shippers Maersk, MSC, and CMA CGM. The other two, COSCO and Hapag Lloyd, are part of GSBN’s network.
Last year (2020), the platform partnered with the International Container Terminal Service, Dutch ports operator Portbase, Turkish ports group YILPORT Holdings, and the Canadian Pacific Railway, to name a few.
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Trade finance / shipping - GSBN
GSBN was first unveiled in 2018 but only incorporated in Hong Kong this year in part due to regulatory complications
Hong Kong-headquartered GSBN is backed by major players in the shipping industry, including container shippers China’s COSCO and Hapag Lloyd, and port operators PSA and Hutchison Ports.
They announced in August 2021 a partnership with Singapore’s Contour, a blockchain trade finance platform. The alliance aims to enable efficient financing for shipped goods. Contour is funded by nine global banks, including BNP Paribas, Citi, HSBC, ING, and Standard Chartered.
Contour uses R3’s Corda enterprise blockchain, whereas GSBN uses Hyperledger Fabric.
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SkuChain
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Trade finance / shipping
Conclusion for our consortium:
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Initial mapping
Marketplaces
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Covantis - Geneva
a blockchain initiative founded by global agribusiness firms Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus officially launched under the banner of Covantis
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AgriDigital - Sydney
goal: ensure the integrity of the trading, tracing and finance involved for all stakeholders for grain supply chains. Mainly Australia & North America
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Foodgates
For French producers and Chinese buyers
Launched by VeChain, ASI Group, DNV GL in 2019
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Marketplaces
Conclusion for our consortium:
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Initial mapping
Manufacturing
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GrainChain - Texas
The Grainchain team was established by the founders of SiloSys, an IT solution for the agricultural industry. For the last 5 years, we have been automating the system of measuring the commodities coming into silos and storage facilities, providing accurate measurement, tracking, and accountability for soft commodities
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Bext360 - US
Bext360's software keeps track of commodities by identifying and making an electronic token for each one using the Stellar Network
using the Bextmachine - a Coinstar-like device that uses machine vision to grade and track coffee beans.
measurable accountability for critical supply chains like coffee, cocoa, cotton, palm oil, and recyclables
Operates in US, Europe, Ghana, Paraguay, Somalia
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Initial mapping
Climate actions
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Climate action in agriculture
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (CCAM). UN FAO report
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Climate action in agriculture
Database of projects done
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Climate action in agriculture
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (CCAM). UN FAO report
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Nori – USA
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blockchain-based marketplace for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Paul Gambill�CEO
USE CASE
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ProofofImpact – South Africa
Using blockchain to capture impact value and reinvent how we finance social impact
Lulian Circo
Co-Founder
& CEO
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Initial mapping
Land titling
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Land Titling: Heifer announced working on it
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BenBen - Ghana
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BenBen - Ghana
Emmanuel Noah
Founder & CEO
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Initial mapping
Farmers financial solutions / inclusion
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AgUnity - Melbourne
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Agri-wallter - Amsterdam
Agri-wallet is a digital wallet, a mobile financial tool, for the agricultural sector providing a business account for farmers, which they can use to save, buy, and earn. Partners involve Netherlands Development Orgnisation (SNV), the Mastercard fund, Rabobank Foundation, International Fertilizer Development Center, BoP Inc., Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) Agriterra, and Technoserve
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Heifer & WeTrust
Heifer wants to provide training and access to financial tools such as micro-lending, micro-insurance, and financial assets using blockchain-based applications.
“We are currently working with WeTrust on a pilot program for savings and lending circles that will increase financial inclusion in Heifer Honduras”.
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Banana Coin – Laos
https://www.bananacoin.io
A crypto currency to raise funds for a banana plantation in Laos
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EthicHub
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Moeda - New York / Uruguay
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Taynaah Reis
Founder & CEO
The Cooperative Cryptocurrency That Aims to Advance Financial Inclusion
Isa Yu
Co-Founder
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Etherisc – Germany
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Decentralized insurance protocol to collectively build insurance products
Arbol
WorldCover - Ghana
Conclusion on financial solutions/inclusion
Initial mapping
Worker’s rights & conditions
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eMin - Hong Kong
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FairFood - Amsterdam
Mainly for coconut, coffee, tomato, cane sugar, pineapple, shrimp, Vanilla
Strong focus on small farmer fair revenue & conditions in low & middle income countries
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Initial mapping
regulatory reporting
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Example with Morpheus Network and FCL in Canada
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Initial mapping
other use cases/concept ideas
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Other use cases
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Other use cases
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