agroparistech

Things are changing in France. Ancient schools of agriculture INA PG: (Institut National Agronomique de Paris-Grignon), food ENSIA: (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Alimentaires) and water ENGREF: (Ecole Nationale de Génie Rural, Eaux et Forêts); are now united into a kind of French MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology), called Paris-Tech-Agronomical-Section (AGRO-PARIS-TECH); tropical regions section of ENSIA (SIARC) now is at Montpellier-Sup-Agro.  

All those changes were necessary because France has been chosen by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) to direct Alliance Against Hungry. So, Darfour, a starved African zone is now under French survey for leaving hungry. Else, France agreed special exchange  in food and agriculture questions with China and India.

This nomination is certainly in reason of  french's food historical importance. Many inventions come from France like animal improvement (HARAS), canned foods and pasteurization. While in Spain, Don Quijote fought against windmills, in France Pantagruel, prince of Dipsodia, meet GASTER, master of all sciences and arts, and tasted andouille. Even prehistorical men were good cooks in France, as we can see in Lascaux. 

Today, France's neighbors, like Switzerland, are culinary powers.

•  Belgium takes care of envirnoment teaching latinoamericans to do so. In Belgium there's great interest in equitable commercial products. Some ot them are unique in the world, like Endivia (a variety of Chicory) and represent the future of agriculture as hydroponics, high technology in farming. Vidimport is the most important producer of Endivia (see Belgian Geen-Gold page) in Latin America and sales all kind of Chicory products.

• Denmark know-how on food engineerig is amazing. Danish biological engineers (HANSEN) are the biggest producers of starter cultures in the world. To keep their ecosystem clean danish have proposed to produce renewable plastic material (PLA or Polylactil, see Danish Know-How page) with surprising advantages for the environment. Some Latin-American industrials took advantage of this technology.    Vidimport (http://www.vidimport.com.mx) pack his fancy fruits and vegetables on a fully renewable plastic package.