The Brussels Development Briefing n. 55 on "Opportunities of blockchain for agriculture" organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, the ACP Secretariat, Concord and BMZ was held on 15th May 2019 (9h00-13h00) at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels, Room C.
2. TE-FOOD INTERNATIONAL GMBH
• Erik Arokszallasi CEO
• 25 years IT and 4 years traceability
experience
• 2.5 years blockchain experience
• Representations in 16 countries
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5. Issues to be solved
• No clear picture about farms and livestock
• Missing continous and transparent information
flow about death cases
• Missing interoperability
• Within animal sector
• Between authorities and industry
• Domestic
• International
• Missing biosecurity knowledge on farm and
authority side
• Missing global protocols about needed actions and
information flow
• Fair compensation rules
7. Agricultural
organizations
How to get fair
compensation
right time?
Whiat to do
after
epidemic?
How to protect
animals?
Preictions and
trends
Tracking
intervention
controls
To be informed
9. Data collection modules
• Farm registration (mobile and
web)
• Livestock report (mobile and
web)
• Death report (mobile and web)
• In-farm traceability (feeding,
vaccination, chemcical material,
etc) control
• Traceability/movement (full
supply chain) control
• Intervention (culling, cleaning,
etc) control
Compensation module
• Clearing and settlement
• Tracking payments
Farm to table food
traceability and built-in
Livestock and Epidemic
Control Module
Education
• Biosecurity education for farms and
authorities
• How to proceed?
Communication
• News and messages for farm and
authorities
Reports and statistics
• Big data analyses, daily, weekly,
monthly reports
AI based Trend analyses
• Predictions (direction, speed,
economical impacts)
10. Why blockchain?
• Unmodifiable
• Livestock data from farms and authorities
• Death cases data from farms and
authorities
• Intervention rules and protocols
• Compensation tracking
• Transparent
• Data and events
• Protocols, represented in smart conracts
• Compensation rules, represented in smart
conracts
• Decentralized within satekholder
structure
11. • Public permissioned blockchain
• Supernodes, masternodes
• The FoodChain is one of the Top 10
blockchains by daily activity
Source: blocktivity.info
• Built on
12. Use case in Vietnam
• Contract with GSO and MARD
• Focusing on ASF
• Project launched in May 2019
• Pilot in 2 Provinces
• Roll out in 2019
• Involved Veterinary Department
13. Techniology is not the solution,
but it can be a part of it.
Additional requirements
• Motivation
• Education
• Regulation
• Public communication
• Authority involvement
• Lab test integration
Public permissioned means that the access to traceability data is public (but during the implementation the scope of public data is set), and permissioned means that maintaining a node, and entering information to the blockchain requires permission.