To achieve blockchain
food traceability from farm to plate means smaller producers, be they farmers or fishermen, need to participate. Some have voiced concerns that for smaller players taking part in traceability projects is an additional burden both in terms of time and cost. It’s an issue of inclusion. At Ledger Insights we thought that producers had to pay at least $100 a month to participate in IBM’s Food Trust, but we were wrong. Only those who buy value-added services are charged.
In August 2017 IBM first unveiled the
Food Trust initiative with ten significant founding partners in Dole, Driscoll’s, Golden State Foods, Kroger, McCormick and Company, McLane Company, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Unilever and Walmart. The platform
went live last October.
This past September,
Walmart asked all suppliers of fresh leafy greens to join the initiative within a year. And there was a deadline of January 2019 for the first phase of one-step traceability. Hence, Walmart worked with IBM to ensure the barrier to entry was as low as possible.
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