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Maine Food Data Consortium

The goal of the Maine Food Data Consortium is to create a statewide database of information about Maine's food system that can be accessed and maintained by everyone with an interest in the food system using multiple mapping platforms and at the regional scale appropriate to each user's needs.

Purpose Statement:

The Maine Food Data Consortium formed in January of 2014. It seeks to ensure the creation, availability and long term maintenance of high quality data to describe Maine's vibrant and growing food system. Collaborators from all over Maine are "pulling together on the same rope" to avoid duplication of effort and to establish common standards for data collection and a central location available to all users. The quality of food system data "behind the maps" is a primary focus.

Members of the Maine Food Data Consortium include:

The Maine Food Data Consortium is working on data quality, ways and means of hosting the information, and platforms that are so useful and engaging that users will be strongly motivated to keep their information up to date.

As Maine-led efforts are developed we are also reviewing the local/regional food system mapping efforts in other parts of the country inlcuding:

For more information on this exciting effort please contact any of the members of the Maine Food Data Consortium above.