Blockchain-Enabled Provenance and Supply Chain Governance for Indigenous Foods and Botanicals: A Design Approach Study

Warwick Powell, Yasmina Sultanbawa, Madonna Thomson, Dharini Sivakumar, Mokaddes Ahmed Dipu (), Luke Williams, Charles Turner-Morris, Gary Sigley and Shan He
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Warwick Powell: School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
Yasmina Sultanbawa: Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Madonna Thomson: Bushtukka and Botanicals Indigenous Enterprise Cooperative Limited, Brisbane, QLD 4068, Australia
Dharini Sivakumar: Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Mokaddes Ahmed Dipu: School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Luke Williams: Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Charles Turner-Morris: Smart Trade Networks, Brisbane, QLD 4103, Australia
Gary Sigley: Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Shan He: School of Food and Pharmacy, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 16, 1-23

Abstract: Ensuring Indigenous producers realize and capture provenance value from the native foods and botanicals supply chain is a key part of achieving economic, community, and ecological sustainability for Indigenous communities. Utilizing blockchain technology to support validated provenance claims throughout supply chain processes is an important intervention toward achieving this objective. This paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing project in which blockchain technology underpins a “whole of supply chain” approach to addressing issues of provenance value claims and how these are validated within a digitalized environment. The paper focuses on the overarching objectives of achieving provenance value-based growth, and sustainability within a collaborative governance framework that reflects Indigenous community practice. We discuss how technology design and application developments have been undertaken in the context of a cooperative governance model, with the long-term view of enabling ecosystem participants to share responsibility for system development, operations, and benefits. The paper presents a provenance claims approach anchored in a Resources, Events, and Agents (REA) framework. It showcases the first version of a digital application that was developed by engaging a user community. How the application may be applied to other sectors is also briefly explored.

Keywords: provenance; supply chains; blockchain; indigenous economic development; sustainability; REA supply chain schema; governance; traceability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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