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BlockFoodWaste

An Android and IOS native mobile application incorporating Smart Contracts on Blockchain to tackle food waste challenge

BlockFoodWasteproject concentrates on the intersection of two rapidly growing scientific areas, that of food waste management and that of Blockchain technology, which will be used to ensure continuous communication between food-service establishments and food insecure people, using an online ledger, where the quantity and type of food made available by each contracting party will be shared with a view to optimizing the allocation of excess food. The aim of the proposed project is to develop a mobile platform, which will be composed of three (3) subsystems:

·        Firstly, it will consist of a data collection subsystem, which will gather data streams, such as photos and nutrition information on the food available, for visualization purposes.
Secondly, it will consist of a reward subsystem, through which food donations will be monetized, by providing tokens, as a reward, to the contracting parties, thereby creating a co-operative incentive.
·        Finally, it will consist of an application subsystem, which will enable the visualization of the information gathered and offer value-added services to both food-service establishments and food insecure users of the application.
 
In the long term, the abovementioned project aspires to promote an analytical and sustainable plan to reduce food waste in Greek food-service establishments, while providing food aid to people in need. Moreover, it plans on scaling the implementation of its results up into such a way that it also permits consumers to provide edible food, which they do not need and would otherwise dispose of, to food insecure peopleregions

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