3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
undertake the mapping inventory as an integral part of courses, as well as coding
smartphone apps to make citizens aware of nearby available sites to garden and/or where
to find local organic produce grown and for sale or gleaning. Similarly, with public funding
support for necessary equipment, students and faculty could perform a valuable public
service by installing soil smart sensor networks to gather data for measuring and mapping
the presence of any hazardous or toxic contaminants in specific locations that require
remedial treatment. In addition, calculations can be performed and shared online
indicating produce yields that could be achieved – per plot, by neighborhood, city wide,
and nation-wide.
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2.1 Establish a public-private working group to assess the commercial readiness for applying
Ethereum and Blockchain distributed ledger technologies to supply chain transactions: a
“Roadmap towards Sustainable Food Production by Transparency and Trust.” These
encrypted, but auditable distributed ledgers could help build transparency and trust within
every supply-chain. The combination of open-source hardware and software and
innovative distributed apps might transform companies’ willingness and inclination to
better inform their potential customers of the upstream and downstream history of their
products and production processes. Features to implement overall traceability for sellers
and providers might include: Origin of primary products; Labeling (origin, product number,
etc.); Transport from origin to first transformation process; HACCP compatibility checks;
Sales tracking; Supply-chain audit; Third Party software integration / ERP integration;
Margin tracking; Customer satisfaction; Customer habits; Delivery tracking; Environmental
impacts on every stage of transformation (Input-Output assessments); Contest between
providers (global critical path analysis); Delta analysis (sales, margin impacts). For
customers: Decentralized app using QR-codes to share information (satisfaction, point of
sale, location, etc.) and check the quality of the global delivery chain (CO 2 impact,
provenance, reputation of the providers, and comparison with market standards).
2.2 Establish a platform for engaging relevant professionals across sectors in identifying,
prioritizing, and addressing the myriad of technical challenges associated with scaling up
the IoT tools and technologies applicable to the farming community. Leverage efforts to
foster the seamless interfacing with and interconnections between the Internets of
Communication, Renewable Energy, and Transportation & Logistics, Buildings as nodes and
nanogrids, and the Internet of Things, all of which play a vital and central role in managing,
powering, and moving economic activity in the agriculture sector.
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