Meyer, Isabella AFord, MerrylSwanepoel, AniekeSchoeman, Chanel2025-08-052025-08-052025-05978-1-905824-74-8http://hdl.handle.net/10204/14337Emerging farmers in resource-constrained environments often face significant challenges that hinder their commercial success, including issues related to productivity, market access, consumer trust, and other well-documented factors. The Ilima platform takes a supply chain perspective on emerging farmer performance, and supports supply chain functioning from farm to fork. Its blockchain backbone facilitates traceability, certification and other functions that require trust in information integrity, while the platform generates information that can be used by the stakeholder ecosystem to support supply chain development. The development of Ilima follows a design science approach, with iterations of which the outcomes affect the evolution of the platform. This development process is summarised in this paper, and learning and recommendations for the development of 4IR solutions in developing contexts are shared.FulltextenSmall scale agricultureSupply chain integrationBlockchainFarm-to-fork solutionConference PresentationN/A