BloFoPASS: A blockchain food palliatives tracer support system for resolving welfare distribution crisis in Nigeria

Abstract

With population rising to approximately 200 million Nigerians –fast-paced, urbanization has continued to advent food insecurity with maladministration, corruption, internal rife, and starvation. These, threatened the nation's unity with the lockdown of 2020; and consequently, have now become the trend. Nigeria  must  as  a  nation,  re-examine  her  methods  in  the  administration  of palliatives (in lieu of food and relief) distribution –as the above-listed issues have  become  of  critical  need  in  the  equitable  distribution  of  reliefs,  both from   the   humanitarian   agency   view,   and   the   Government   (State   and Federal).   They   have   noticed   non-transparency,   corruption,   and   data inadequacies,  as  major  drawbacks  in  its  management.  Our  study presents  a blockchain ensemble for the administration of food palliatives distribution in Nigeria  that  first  ensures,  that  all  beneficiaries  be  registered,  and  the  food palliatives  are  sensor-tagged  and  recorded  on  the  blockchain.  Results  show the  number  of  transactions  per  second  and  page  retrieval  abilities  for  the proposed chain were quite low with 30-TPS and 0.38seconds respectively –as compared to public blockchain. Proposed ensemble eliminates fraud that is herein rippled across the existing system, minimizes corrupt practices via sensor-based  model,  provides  insight  for  stakeholders,  and  minimize  the error in reported data onthe supply chain.