Farm to fork: securing a supply chain with direct impact on food security

Abstract

Food security is currently considered a huge societal challenge which technology providers, technology adopters, policy makers and consumers altogether are facing. A first step towards more secure and safe food has been attempted through the deployment mainly of Internet of Things based solutions and applications that gather information and provide it to the users. However, these systems are susceptible to attacks e.g. data leakage and information modification, keeping our societies away from the target of secure food. This paper explores the requirements of the farm to fork supply chain with respect to security and proposes a platform that aims at alleviating and mitigating a wide set of attacks.