Exploring the Nexus Between Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Blockchain Integration: Unraveling the Influencing Factors

Abstract

Humanity is significantly affected by agriculture that provides crucial resources but also leads to environmental degradation, deforestation and loss of biodiversity. Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAPs) came up in the 1980s through conservation agriculture, organic farming and sustainable intensification to address these issues. Nevertheless, the adoption of SAPs has its hurdles derived from personal traits, farm attributes, psychosocial factors and external forces. Notwithstanding its limitations, the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is frequently used for understanding adoption intentions and integrating with other theories. It can be argued that Blockchain technology can transform agricultural supply chains by improving transparency, traceability and efficiency. Its use helps ensure compliance with sustainability standards, better data management as well as automating transactions using smart contracts thus reducing costs that encourage SAP adoption. In future research should focus on closing the intention-behavior gap in SAP adoption in developing countries particularly and how blockchain can further improve the effectiveness and uptake of these practices towards fostering resilient and sustainable agricultural systems worldwide.