Course overview
Blockchain for Agriculture and Food Supply Chains explores how blockchain and distributed ledger technology can improve transparency, traceability, trust and efficiency across agricultural value chains. The course examines applications from farm production through aggregation, processing, storage, transportation, distribution and final consumption, with particular attention to food provenance, quality, certification and safety.
Participants explore practical applications of blockchain in farm-to-fork traceability, product authentication, farmer and supplier records, agricultural certification, food safety, cold-chain monitoring, smart contracts, market access, agricultural payments and sustainable supply chains. Blockchain can complement technologies such as IoT, GPS, GIS and mobile platforms to create more reliable and shareable records across agricultural ecosystems.
Course objectives
- Explain blockchain and distributed ledger technology in the context of agriculture.
- Develop practical blockchain use cases for agriculture and food supply chains.
- Identify agricultural and food supply-chain processes that can benefit from blockchain.
- Assess blockchain applications for agricultural markets, payments and financing. Identify risks, limitations and implementation challenges
- Examine blockchain integration with IoT and other agricultural technologies.
- Explore blockchain applications for farmer, supplier and certification records.
- Understand the use of smart contracts in agricultural transactions.
- Examine blockchain applications in food safety and quality management.
- Apply blockchain concepts to agricultural product provenance and authentication.
- Understand blockchain-based farm-to-fork traceability.
Who should attend
This course is designed for agricultural professionals, agribusiness managers, farmers' organizations and cooperatives, food processors, food distributors, supply chain managers, procurement professionals, logistics managers, food safety and quality officers, agricultural extension professionals, certification bodies, exporters and importers, government agricultural officers, development organizations, ICT and digital transformation professionals, auditors and business decision makers involved in agriculture and food value chains.
Course content
- Module 1: Introduction to Blockchain in Agriculture and Food Systems Understanding blockchain technology and its potential role in transforming agricultural value chains and food systems. Key areas: Blockchain fundamentals, distributed ledgers, transact
- Module 2: Agricultural Value Chains and Blockchain Opportunities Examining common challenges across agricultural value chains and identifying where blockchain can create additional transparency, trust and efficiency. Key areas: Farm-to-market value chai
- Module 3: Farm-to-Fork Traceability and Product Provenance Exploring how blockchain can record the history of agricultural products from production through processing, transportation and final sale. Key areas: Farm records, product origin, batch trackin
- Module 4: Blockchain for Food Safety and Quality Management Examining how trusted and traceable records can support food safety, quality assurance, product recalls and investigation of food-related incidents. Key areas: Food safety records, quality chec
- Module 5: Blockchain for Farmers, Cooperatives and Agricultural Suppliers Exploring how blockchain can improve farmer and supplier records, transaction histories, certification information and participation in organized value chains. Key areas: Farmer i
- Module 6: Blockchain for Agricultural Certification and Compliance Understanding how blockchain can support certification and verification of agricultural products and production practices. Key areas: Organic certification, sustainability certification,
- Module 7: Smart Contracts for Agricultural Transactions Examining how smart contracts can automate selected agreements and transactions between farmers, buyers, suppliers, processors and other value-chain participants. Key areas: Smart contracts, contra
- Module 8: Blockchain, IoT and Smart Agriculture Exploring how blockchain can work with IoT sensors and digital agricultural technologies to record trusted information about production and supply-chain events. Key areas: IoT sensors, farm data, temperatu
- Module 9: Blockchain for Agricultural Logistics and Cold Chains Examining how blockchain can improve visibility and accountability during storage, transportation and distribution of agricultural and food products. Key areas: Warehouse records, transport
- Module 10: Blockchain for Agricultural Markets, Payments and Trade Exploring how blockchain can support agricultural transactions, market information, payments and access to domestic and international markets. Key areas: Agricultural marketplaces, price
- Module 11: Blockchain for Sustainable and Responsible Food Supply Chains Examining how blockchain can support sustainability claims, responsible sourcing and monitoring of agricultural and environmental practices. Key areas: Sustainable sourcing, enviro
- Module 12: Blockchain Agriculture Strategy and Implementation Developing a practical framework for assessing and implementing blockchain solutions within agricultural and food supply chains. Key areas: Use-case identification, stakeholder mapping, data
General notes
- Map an agricultural value chain and identify blockchain opportunities, Design a farm-to-fork blockchain traceability workflow, Develop a product-provenance scenario for a selected agricultural commodity, Analyse a food-safety and product-recall scenario, Develop a blockchain-based farmer and supplier record, Design a smart-contract scenario between farmers and buyers, Develop a blockchain-based agricultural certification workflow, Examine an IoT and blockchain cold-chain monitoring scenario, Analyse a blockchain-enabled agricultural export process.
- The course is agriculture, agribusiness and food-supply-chain focused and does not require programming or cryptocurrency trading. Practical activities use agricultural value chains, food safety scenarios, traceability cases, certification processes, logistics and smart-contract examples.
- Blockchain is presented as a tool that can strengthen trusted information sharing and traceability, not as a solution to every agricultural supply-chain problem. Successful implementation depends on reliable source data, participation by value-chain actors, appropriate governance, interoperability, digital infrastructure and institutional readiness. Research also identifies adoption barriers and the need to assess whether blockchain is actually appropriate for a particular traceability problem.
Frequently asked questions
1. 1. What is the Blockchain for Agriculture and Food Supply Chains course about?
The course explores how blockchain can improve agricultural value chains through better traceability, transparency, product provenance, food safety, certification, logistics and information sharing.
2. 2. Who should attend this course?
It is suitable for agricultural and agribusiness professionals, farmers' organizations, cooperatives, food processors, supply chain and logistics professionals, food safety officers, certification bodies, government officials and digital transformation professionals.
3. 3. Do I need prior blockchain or programming knowledge?
No. The course introduces blockchain fundamentals and focuses on practical agricultural and food-supply-chain applications. Programming is not required.
4. 4. Will the course cover farm-to-fork traceability and food safety?
Yes. Participants examine how blockchain can record product information from production through processing, transportation and distribution, supporting provenance, quality management and targeted product recalls.
5. 5. Will practical agricultural use cases be included?
Yes. Practical activities cover agricultural traceability, farmer records, certification, smart contracts, cold-chain monitoring, food safety, agricultural logistics and blockchain-enabled market and trade processes.
Schedule & fees
| Dates | Location | Duration | Fee (USD) |
|---|
| 05/04/2027 - 09/04/2027 |
Mombasa,Kenya |
10 Days |
$2,000 |
| 05/04/2027 - 16/04/2027 |
Kisumu,Kenya |
10 Days |
$2,000 |
| 03/05/2027 - 14/05/2027 |
Naivasha,Kenya |
10 Days |
$2,000 |
| 07/06/2027 - 11/06/2027 |
Nairobi,kenya or Virtual |
10 Days |
$2,000 |
| 21/06/2027 - 02/07/2027 |
Arusha,Tanzania |
10 Days |
$2,500 |
| 04/10/2027 - 15/10/2027 |
Addis Ababa,Ethiopia |
10 Days |
$3,000 |