Julie Marie Suarez is Associate Dean for Land-Grant Affairs at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her responsibilities include strengthening the connections among New York’s land-grant college, policymakers, and the community at large. Working to bring science-based knowledge of food, agriculture, and life sciences into public policy deliberations, she has been involved in the establishment of a Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture Innovation and the Institute of Food Safety at Cornell AgriTech, the NYS Soil Health & Resiliency Project, the Cornell Small Farms FarmOps program, and expansions of the Cornell PRO-DAIRY and the NYS Integrated Pest Management Programs. She serves on the Governor’s Anti-Hunger Food Policy Council as well as a variety of Department of Agriculture and Markets advisory bodies, task forces, associations, and working groups.
Functional or Fractured Food Supply Chains?
Event Overview
In this panel discussion, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business professor Miguel Gomez will be joined by Paul Sellew, founder and CEO of hydroponic grower Little Leaf Farms, and Julie Suarez, Associate Dean for Land-Grant Affairs at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). Their combined expertise in supply chain management and policies within the food agriculture industry will elevate our understanding of how vital goods reach consumers, as well as how system and policy choices can improve outcomes.
What You'll Learn
- The rewards and challenges of leading a local food startup in volatile times
- Incentives and disincentives for smallholder farm participation in food value chains
- The complex relationships among agricultural education, production, policy, and communities
- How equitable food access in global, regional, and local supply chains can work
Speakers
Miguel I. Gómez is the Robert G. Tobin Associate Professor at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Director of the Food Industry Management Program. His research program is concentrated on two interrelated areas under the umbrella of food marketing and distribution: understanding supply chain competitiveness and sustainability, and investigating food markets from farm to table. His research extends to economic development and environmental economics issues in global food supply chains, with an emphasis in Latin America.
Paul Sellew has founded, managed, and grown successful companies in the food and agriculture, lawn and garden, renewable energy, and organics recycling industries. He is the founder and CEO of Little Leaf Farms, a state-of-the-art greenhouse producer of baby greens that are grown and packaged at its Devens, MA location and sold in over 2,000 grocery stores and fine-dining establishments throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Prior to this, Mr. Sellew founded and was CEO of Harvest Power. He also founded and was CEO of Backyard Farms, a year-round greenhouse producer of tomatoes on the East Coast, where he led the development of its 42-acre tomato greenhouse. A graduate of Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Mr. Sellew has served on Cornell’s University Council, CALS Dean’s Advisory Council, and the Board of the U.S. Composting Council.
Julie Marie Suarez is Associate Dean for Land-Grant Affairs at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her responsibilities include strengthening the connections among New York’s land-grant college, policymakers, and the community at large. Working to bring science-based knowledge of food, agriculture, and life sciences into public policy deliberations, she has been involved in the establishment of a Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture Innovation and the Institute of Food Safety at Cornell AgriTech, the NYS Soil Health & Resiliency Project, the Cornell Small Farms FarmOps program, and expansions of the Cornell PRO-DAIRY and the NYS Integrated Pest Management Programs. She serves on the Governor’s Anti-Hunger Food Policy Council as well as a variety of Department of Agriculture and Markets advisory bodies, task forces, associations, and working groups.
Miguel I. Gómez is the Robert G. Tobin Associate Professor at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Director of the Food Industry Management Program. His research program is concentrated on two interrelated areas under the umbrella of food marketing and distribution: understanding supply chain competitiveness and sustainability, and investigating food markets from farm to table. His research extends to economic development and environmental economics issues in global food supply chains, with an emphasis in Latin America.
Paul Sellew has founded, managed, and grown successful companies in the food and agriculture, lawn and garden, renewable energy, and organics recycling industries. He is the founder and CEO of Little Leaf Farms, a state-of-the-art greenhouse producer of baby greens that are grown and packaged at its Devens, MA location and sold in over 2,000 grocery stores and fine-dining establishments throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Prior to this, Mr. Sellew founded and was CEO of Harvest Power. He also founded and was CEO of Backyard Farms, a year-round greenhouse producer of tomatoes on the East Coast, where he led the development of its 42-acre tomato greenhouse. A graduate of Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Mr. Sellew has served on Cornell’s University Council, CALS Dean’s Advisory Council, and the Board of the U.S. Composting Council.
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