Blockchain-Enabled Agricultural Policies and Practices: Transforming Governance, Transparency, and Sustainability in Agri-Food Systems explores the transformative potential of blockchain technology in reshaping modern agricultural governance, supply chain management, and sustainable food systems. The book examines how decentralized digital infrastructures, smart contracts, distributed ledgers, and data-driven technologies can improve transparency, traceability, accountability, and operational efficiency across agri-food ecosystems.
It highlights applications in agricultural subsidy management, crop insurance, food safety certification, decentralized identity systems, secure data sharing, supply chain monitoring, and blockchain-based governance frameworks. Emphasis is placed on integrating blockchain with emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and predictive analytics to support resilient and inclusive agricultural development. The volume also addresses critical challenges related to cybersecurity, privacy, scalability, interoperability, and regulatory compliance in blockchain-enabled agricultural systems. Designed for researchers, policymakers, academicians, development professionals, and AgriTech innovators, this book serves as a valuable reference for advancing transparent, sustainable, and digitally empowered agri-food systems.
Chapter 1. Evolution of Digital Agriculture and the Need for Decentralized Systems
Chapter 2. Farmer Producer Organisations as Institutional Enablers of Blockchain Technology Adoption in Agriculture
Chapter 3. Polygon Network Architecture: Layer-2 Design, Consensus, and Scalability
Chapter 4. Decentralized Identity and Access Control for Agricultural Stakeholders
Chapter 5. Secure Data Sharing and Interoperability with Government and Enterprise Systems
Chapter 6. Blockchain-Enabled Input Distribution and Smart Subsidy Management for Transparent Agricultural Governance
Chapter 7. Smart Contract–Based Crop Insurance and Risk Management
Chapter 8. Blockchain Applications for Quality Certification and Food Safety
Chapter 9. Performance Evaluation of the Polygon Network Under Agricultural Workload Conditions
Chapter 10. Comparative Analysis of Ethereum and Polygon for Agri-Blockchain Systems
Chapter 11. Security, Privacy, and Regulatory Challenges in Agricultural Blockchain Systems
Chapter 12. Implementation Framework for Blockchain-Based Digital Agriculture and Decentralized Data Ecosystems