Mainebiz highlights new Maine Food Production Leadership Council
Mainebiz highlighted the new Maine Food Production Leadership Council, developed as part of a collaborative project led by a team of University of Maine students and faculty in connection with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Susanne Lee, executive-in-residence at the Maine Business School and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, worked with a team of students as well as food manufacturers, retailers, distributors, the hospitality industry, farmers, schools, hospitals, hunger relief organizations, solid waste management professionals, and public policy makers to establish the 30-member council. “Maine is an exciting place to find solutions for global food system challenges like food waste,” Lee says. “We truly believe that Maine can be the ‘lab’ to successfully develop these winning triple-bottom-line solutions and then share with others.”