Securing food production & Logistics in crisis situations: The NUTRISAFE project approach on challenges and perspectives of supply chain security

ABSTRACT

The objective of the KIRAS security research project NutriSafe is to develop and evaluate Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for enhancing the resilience of value chains in the Food Industry. Different use cases about the application of DLT was dealt with comprehensively. The focus for Austria was identified mainly in the fields of food security logistic challenges, disruption of transfer, processing or packaging, pandemic animal diseases or crop failure due to climatic change effects. For the German partners, food safety focused on contamination of foodstuff with germs, diseases or foreign particles that require a retrieval action. In this way, new insights and training tools are created in cooperation with international practice partners to improve food security in the course of the upcoming digitalization and to secure the supply in case of emergency. This paper will give an overview14 of the dynamic work in progress of the project and its challenges by summarizing the findings nearly. Examples will show lessons learned, good practice, but also challenges and open questions or gaps in the wake of complex crisis scenarios and events as the still ongoing COVID pandemic, natural or man-made incidents, or criminal acts represent. © 2021 IDIMT 2021 - Pandemics Impacts, Strategies and Responses, 29th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks All rights reserved.