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Italy’s Olive Oil Fraud: Can Blockchain Help?
Olive oil is a staple in Italian cuisine, renowned for its rich flavor and health benefits. Unfortunately, the olive oil industry in Italy has a dark side - fraud. Olive oil fraud involves blending cheaper oils with extra-virgin olive oil and labeling it as...
How web3 can smarten food security
If you eat food and we know you 100% do - then you should be concerned about food security and food safety! While "Food Security" is about having food in the first place. "Food safety" is about not falling ill from it. When these critical topics for the food industry...
How can digital technologies save the food system?
Adopting digital technology quickly and widely is our best bet to direct the food system in time towards affordable, healthy and sustainable food. For that, we need immediate action at a rapid scale. Let’s stress-test the assumptions, assess the problems and enhance...
Open Food Chain and Open Source
Blockchain and food integrity are all about transparency and trust. That’s why Open Source is the mantra for Open Food Chain. The main differences with proprietary licences are transparency, public access and the fact that it is free of charge. In Open Source, there...
Open Food Chain Key Success Factors
The reason we started our Open Food Chain adventure is that we recognised key blockers for the Agrifood industry to adopt blockchain technology. Having these blockers solved, turned out to be our success factor. The first one is to have industry-owned public...
No smart contracts?
Smart Contracts are generally considered as a very valuable addition on blockchain technology platforms. This is reflected in the integration of smart contract engines on most popular blockchain platforms out there. Examples are Ethereum, Cosmos or Binance Chain. It...
How Open Food Chain embraces the modular blockchain thesis
The first and most popular blockchains were what we now call monolithic blockchains. Blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. A monolithic blockchain is a chain that handles all of the core functions of a blockchain itself within a single, giant architecture. A...
How can Web3 help fight obesity in the Pacific Islands?
Globalization has greatly changed consumption habits and traditions in many regions of the world. Our planet is becoming very homogenized, and we can see that in the big cities, where we see the same stores regardless of whether you are in Barcelona or Kuala Lumpur,...