Table 1: Agricultural Blockchain Projects19
While the adoption of blockchain technology for agricultural commodity
tracing is a positive step, there are many critical issues that need to
be addressed before the use of blockchain technology for this purpose
becomes widespread both technologically and ethically. One of the most
fundamental challenges facing large-scale meaningful adoption is the
limited research done to identify the Key Data Elements needed to ensure
blockchain technology can be implemented consistently for different
commodities and regions20.
Owing to the lack of pre-defined frameworks to help determine what data
are needed to meaningfully track agricultural commodity origins it is
arguably difficult to scale up blockchain technology beyond the
case-study scale. Figure 1 defines the key conceptual blocks that go
into designing blockchains for operationalising supply chain
traceability.