3.8 Self-Assessment

1. What percentage of food produced is currently lost or wasted each year?

2. Supply chain information stored on the blockchain is simultaneously shared between members, subject to consensus, and immutable. For these reasons, blockchain technology is sometimes described as a:

3. Which of these is a common problem in global food supply chains?

4. What is a smart contract?

5. In the context of agri-food supply chains, what is "disintermediation"?

6. How might the implementation of a product recall differ between a regular food supply chain and a blockchain-enabled food supply chain?

7. What is "greenwashing"?

8. Adding QR codes to product packaging can help improve customer relations by:

9. Which of the following blockchain consensus mechanisms is most often criticised for requiring unsustainable levels of energy consumption?

10. Which of the following statements is false?