Social Responsibility Through Supply Chain Traceability in Agriculture

by | Mar 8, 2024 | Agricultural service

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Supply chain traceability in agriculture offers more than the ability to track products from the field to the retailer. Tracing product processing throughout the supply chain builds trust in food safety, promotes environmental sustainability, and enables the utilization of small to medium-sized farmers. From this perspective, smart farming technologies that enable traceability support social, environmental, and economic justice.

Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain

Being able to track agricultural products, beginning with the farms, supports social responsibility. Smart farming technologies make it possible to include farmers who may otherwise be excluded due to an inability to provide crop and other data. Many of these farmers are primary sources of income for their local communities. Without the revenue that selling agricultural products brings people are at risk of living in poverty.

Supply chain traceability promotes social responsibility as well as an efficient supply chain. The Association for Supply Chain Management CEO said he believes the global supply chain community can make a positive difference in the world through diversity. In the agricultural industry, diversity is deep and wide, and technology adds the ability to be inclusive.

Multiplying the Benefits

When a supply chain is deep and wraps around the world, how can a business ensure that social responsibility is driven down to the lowest level? The answer, of course, is through the use of technology. Supply chain traceability impacts social responsibility at the farmer level by:

  • Monitoring the use of crop chemicals, like fertilizers

  • Ensuring environmental sustainability claims are valid

  • Assessing crop quality

  • Ensuring sustainable farming practices are used

  • Promoting respect for the environment and people

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