Transforming Food Waste Management with Blockchain: A Sustainable, Consensus Driven Framework
subject: Blockchain; Consensus; Food supply chain; Sustainability
description: Food waste management is a stern issue that is prevalent around the word, affecting multiple countries and cultures. In a technology driven era, blockchain has gained intense attention because of its various beneficial facets. Blockchain is defined as a technology with its features like security, transparency and immutability, where only the authorized members in a network are given access. The decentralized technology enables transparency and traceability which can be used in food supply chain in conjunction with the various consensus mechanisms to validate transactions. This would ensure consistency and reliability, ensuring the stakeholders to track vivid stages such as food production, processing and distribution. Wastage of food is a cosmopolitan issue conducive to social, economic and environmental challenges. Our proposed work provides substantial benefits in a way to tackle inefficiencies in the food supply chain, Blockchain based business process reengineering can further automate these processes. The paper presents five popular consensus mechanisms that can be used for a sustainable food waste management. The work focuses on providing a blockchain based solution that is low powered and scalable, which in turn increases sustainability and reduces global food waste. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
creator: Kumar, Basant; Mohammed Mueen Pasha, M.; Sandeep, J.; Deepak Kumar, B.; Franklin Jerold, F.; Jassim, Hothefa
source: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control;Volume;601;pp.831-840
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
date: 01-01-2025
rights: Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
relation: ISSN: 21984182;
language: English
type: Book chapter
coverage: Kumar B., Modern College of Business and Science, Muscat, Oman; Mohammed Mueen Pasha M., CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India; Sandeep J., CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India; Deepak Kumar B., St Josephs University, Bengaluru, India; Franklin Jerold F., St Josephs University, Bengaluru, India; Jassim H., Modern College of Business and Science, Muscat, Oman