World Food Programme Uses Blockchain Technology to Alleviate Hunger
The UN World Food Programme has successfully tested the use of Ethereum blockchain for aid distribution. Blockchain technology has become popular across various industry segments due to its versatile nature. Applications built on the distributed ledger can be implemented to solve a range of problems, improve the efficiency of existing systems and even bring in transparency. All these qualities are something critical in today’s social sector. Realizing its potential advantages, the United Nations World Food Programme has gone ahead to explore and implement the crypto-technology in its....
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