Blockchain in Agriculture: A PESTELS Analysis
Blockchain (BC) represents a disruptive technology that has been extensively used to ensure immutability of digital transactions. Starting as an underlying mechanism in the digital currency sector, it has been applicable in a wide range of sectors and application domains. Agriculture represents a se...
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| author | Javier Ordonez Angelos Alexopoulos Konstantinos Koutras Athanasios Kalogeras Kyriakos Stefanidis Vanessa Martos |
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| description | Blockchain (BC) represents a disruptive technology that has been extensively used to ensure immutability of digital transactions. Starting as an underlying mechanism in the digital currency sector, it has been applicable in a wide range of sectors and application domains. Agriculture represents a sector of significance for overall sustainability challenges that is benefiting from digitalisation and technological evolution and the enforcement of Industry 4.0 paradigm shift towards precision agriculture. Introduction of Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems increase overall complexity, with Big Data analysis and Machine Learning technologies paving the way for innovative applications. BC appears to be a promising technology for agriculture introducing new mechanisms for tracing of products and overall agricultural Supply Chain management from the farm to the fork. The authors perform a review of 152 scientific works, providing a concise summary for each and extracting current challenges and open issues for the application of BC in agriculture. By synthesizing their findings, they perform a state of the art analysis along the PESTELS framework. A large number of challenges including technological ones, create big research potential for the evolution of the area. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fbecf488ca204dc4bdb209dcc7a95a172023-07-25T23:00:11ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111736477367910.1109/ACCESS.2023.329588910184418Blockchain in Agriculture: A PESTELS AnalysisJavier Ordonez0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7865-1490Angelos Alexopoulos1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0892-6161Konstantinos Koutras2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0600-091XAthanasios Kalogeras3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5914-7523Kyriakos Stefanidis4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2090-2218Vanessa Martos5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6442-7968Department of Building Engineering and Engineering Projects, University of Granada, Granada, SpainIndustrial Systems Institute, ATHENA Research Center, Patra, GreeceIndustrial Systems Institute, ATHENA Research Center, Patra, GreeceIndustrial Systems Institute, ATHENA Research Center, Patra, GreeceIndustrial Systems Institute, ATHENA Research Center, Patra, GreeceDepartment of Plant Physiology, University of Granada, Granada, SpainBlockchain (BC) represents a disruptive technology that has been extensively used to ensure immutability of digital transactions. Starting as an underlying mechanism in the digital currency sector, it has been applicable in a wide range of sectors and application domains. Agriculture represents a sector of significance for overall sustainability challenges that is benefiting from digitalisation and technological evolution and the enforcement of Industry 4.0 paradigm shift towards precision agriculture. Introduction of Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems increase overall complexity, with Big Data analysis and Machine Learning technologies paving the way for innovative applications. BC appears to be a promising technology for agriculture introducing new mechanisms for tracing of products and overall agricultural Supply Chain management from the farm to the fork. The authors perform a review of 152 scientific works, providing a concise summary for each and extracting current challenges and open issues for the application of BC in agriculture. By synthesizing their findings, they perform a state of the art analysis along the PESTELS framework. A large number of challenges including technological ones, create big research potential for the evolution of the area.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10184418/BlockchainagriculturePESTELSsustainabilitysupply-chainchallenges |
| spellingShingle | Javier Ordonez Angelos Alexopoulos Konstantinos Koutras Athanasios Kalogeras Kyriakos Stefanidis Vanessa Martos Blockchain in Agriculture: A PESTELS Analysis IEEE Access Blockchain agriculture PESTELS sustainability supply-chain challenges |
| title | Blockchain in Agriculture: A PESTELS Analysis |
| title_full | Blockchain in Agriculture: A PESTELS Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Blockchain in Agriculture: A PESTELS Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Blockchain in Agriculture: A PESTELS Analysis |
| title_short | Blockchain in Agriculture: A PESTELS Analysis |
| title_sort | blockchain in agriculture a pestels analysis |
| topic | Blockchain agriculture PESTELS sustainability supply-chain challenges |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10184418/ |
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