How Grain Discover’s Blockchain Solution Can Enable Flexibility in the Agriculture Supply Chain in the Age of COVID-19?

The COVID-19 crisis has sharply brought into focus concerns around supply chain reliability and resilience. No supply chain is of greater important to our everyday lives than that of the food supply chain, and despite being a key contributed to the Canadian economy and a flagship component of the Canadian brand, still it suffers from difficulties around tracing the provenance of crops and produce and a generalized opacity. Grain Discovery has proposed the use of blockchain technology to assist the tracking and tracing of crops as they move through the supply chain and has been working with key industry participants towards a production grade implementation of this technology. This project will require the skills set of an MBA/business graduate to work with the key stakeholders to define what characterizes a minimal set of properties to be recorded on a blockchain ledger in order to function as a viable traceability system and add value to all participants on the supply chain.

Faculty Supervisor:

Henry Kim

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Partner:

Grain Discovery

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

York University

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