How can Blockchain impact the Food Traceability Supply Chain? Costs and benefits for the digitalization of the agri-food system.

Blockchain technology (BCT) ensures trust and transparency along the food supply chain (FSC). It helps to develop the digitisation of rural businesses and accelerate the transition toward a circular economy in the agricultural sector (Pakseresht et al., 2022). However, to foster the adoption of BCT, it is necessary to understand in which cases the adoption of the BCT creates value along the FSC. Therefore, the present study aims to inform on the problems BCT responds to along the FSC, the conditions that allow BCT to create value along the FSC, and the disadvantages of applying BCT along the FSC. To do so, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) methodology is employed (Tranfield et al., 2003), as a means to gain knowledge from the available evidence to provide insights and guidance for intervention into the operational needs of practitioners. Articles from both peer-reviewed academic journals and industry reports are considered. The information collected is subsequently clustered according to the thematic analysis (Liñán & Fayolle, 2015). What are the performances of traceability systems and how the blockchain might help the agri-food system in its process of digitalization? What are the benefits and costs?