FoodPrint - Agriculture & Food solution using Blockchain

We (as a team of 5) applied to a Blockchain Hackathon in Switzerland. Our team got shortlisted for the competition along with 18 other teams. We were presented with 6 verticals to choose from. These verticals represented industry domains in which current problems can potentially be solved using Blockchain technologies. After a lot of brainstorming, our team decided to choose Agriculture & Food vertical.

Context:

The current agricultural ecosystem is struggling with difficulties to verify information on resources and food production, especially the origin of food, the proof of sustainable production (including issues relating to animal welfare and carbon footprint) or the documentation of payments made along the supply chain. This contrasts sharply with customers’ need for greater transparency and trustworthy information about the food they consume. In order to meet these requirements, the entire supply chain must be recorded and documented. This results in two challenges to make ownership and supply chains scalable and data available to everyone.

About:

FoodPrint is a system that uses blockchain technologies to provide transparency in the supply chain of agriculture. This would be realized by connecting the consumer and producer (farmer) virtually. This connection would help the consumers to get an overview of how and when the food item was processed in the chain.

The name FoodPrint is derived from the play of words Foot-print. Just like a foot-print can be used to track and identify a person, our application allows the user (from the consumer side) to track the food item's journey. With a quick scan, the consumer would be able to know the origins of the various ingredients which compose that particular food item.

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