AgroTrace helps agricultural organisations record, verify, and share the journey of farm produce—from producer registration and batch creation to processing, delivery, and final verification.
Batch AT-MZ-000184 verified
Origin: Ashanti Region · Maize
Hyperledger Fabric
Permissioned blockchain infrastructure
Partners & Collaborators
AgroTrace creates a continuous digital record of product origin, handling, quality, transformation, storage, and movement. Every authorised participant contributes to the same traceability history while maintaining appropriate control over private organisational data.
Agricultural supply chains in Ghana and many African markets depend on numerous independent actors. Information rarely moves as effectively as the product itself. Records may be kept on paper, communicated verbally, or not captured at all.
See the Traceability GapProduct origins become difficult to verify.
Quality problems are detected too late.
Buyers depend on incomplete or verbal information.
Responsible farmers and aggregators cannot prove their practices.
Recalls and investigations become slow and expensive.
Paper records are easily lost, damaged, duplicated, or altered.
AgroTrace gives every registered batch a unique digital identity. As the product is collected, combined, inspected, stored, transported, processed, or sold, each new event is added to its history.
Capture producers, farms, suppliers, commodities, and locations.
Follow product batches from intake to final destination.
Confirm provenance and approved handling information.
View quality, volume, storage, and movement data.
Connect existing systems, sensors, and data tools.
Generate operational, programme, compliance, and impact reports.
A farmer, cooperative, supplier, farm, or production location is registered with their details.
When products are collected, the aggregator records the quantity, origin, date, and initial quality information.
AgroTrace generates a QR code or unique batch number that can be attached to the physical product.
Storage, inspection, consolidation, transport, processing, and transfer events are connected to the batch.
Buyers, processors, regulators, or consumers can access the information they are authorised to see.
Turn every collection into a verifiable batch.
See the history behind every input you receive.
Build buyer confidence with verifiable product histories.
Move from fragmented records to actionable supply-chain visibility.
Make every programme outcome easier to verify.
Give customers evidence, not just claims.
We are working with aggregators, cooperatives, processors, buyers, regulators, and development organisations to test AgroTrace in operational agricultural environments.
A pilot can focus on one commodity, one supply chain, one geographical area, or a selected group of suppliers.
Safer and more accountable food systems
Reduced information gaps
Faster identification of product issues
Greater recognition for responsible producers
Stronger buyer confidence
More inclusive digital participation
Improved programme monitoring
Preservation of relevant Indigenous Knowledge
Support for SDGs 2, 3, and 9
AgroTrace's original project design specifically links the platform to food security, public health, and digital agricultural infrastructure. The platform connects traceability to broader development outcomes relevant to smallholder farmers and informal agricultural markets across Africa.
Explore Our Impact Model
AgroTrace originated from research and innovation work at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The platform is being developed through technical prototyping, stakeholder engagement, field-informed design, and collaboration across agriculture, blockchain, public health, and data governance.
The team has built a functional grain-traceability prototype and is refining the system through testing and stakeholder feedback.
Meet the Team