Disrupting the Food Distribution Market with Blockchain
Did you know that as per UN’s World Food Organization (WFO)over 600 million people get sick due to food poisoning every year. That’s 1 in every 10 people on this planet. More then 400,000 people die every year from foodbourne illnesses of which a third of them are children under the age of 5. This is sad and the problem needs urgent attention especially in the developing world.
The leading issue identified is the lack of visibility and traceability in the food supply chain. If a food contamination is detected, there is no way to precisely notify all the retailers, restaurants and food services who may be affected by the particular batch of produce.
Farm2Kitchen is building a decentralized Food Traceability platform on the Blockchain for the Food Distribution industry. The Blockchain is a distributed digital ledger to track the food at every stage of the supply chain from the farm all the way to the restaurant kitchen. We are providing secure Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Software Developers to build apps to access the platform.
What differentiates us from the competition is the easy to use products and solutions we are developing for the small farmers, distributors and consumers such as the restaurants. The core product is a Distributor Web Portal for Restaurant and Food Services to lookup distributors and wholesalers servicing their locations and schedule recurring orders. The Web portal provides additional features for the distributors such as on-boarding transporters, preparing routes and order fulfillment. The transporters get a Scanner app for tracking deliveries and the restaurants get a mobile app for sending and receiving Food Alerts.
Food supply chains have grown complex and there is a lack of trust between various parties in the supply chain. Traditional databases and the Software Applications built on those have to be centralized and not everyone like to share their data with a 3rd party. Blockchain is a game changer. This is a project that is solving a supply chain problem which could not be solved for without the use of Blockchain. We are developing a transparent, reliable and easy to adopt decentralized platform to address the global Food Safety and Security problems.
To learn more about Farm2Kitchen, visit our website farm2kitchen.io. Join the discussion on Telegram t.me/farm2kitchen and follow us on twitter.com/farm2kitchen. Lets make the Food Supply Chain a little safer for all of us.
