Food and Agricultures of the World

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“Agropolis-Museum is a Science Center dealing with topics such as food, nutrition, agriculture, with an historical approach on a worldwide scale.”The site has four online exhibits:

• World’s food: “Discover the astounding itinerary of the world’s foods from the field to the dish. Compare their nutritional functions, histories, production, transformation, consumption, and the cultural traditions they are attached to.”
• The History of Food and Agriculture is divided into three sections including Pre-Agricultural Times, Agricultural Times, and Agro-Industrial Times. Some of the topics here look at man as predator, containers (for food), early animal domestication, and the mechanization of agriculture.
• Farmers and Farming over the World looks at the similarities between different types of farmers all over the world from the greenhouses in the Netherlands to cattle breeding in Morocco. This exhibition explores the challenges and cultural influences on farming in Mexico, France, the mid-west, and Cameroon.
• The “Banquet de l’Humanit�” “one eats according to one’s income, food resources and cultural background” and displays food consumption models and food consumption rate per food group for France, Japan, Portugal, Somalia, Columbia, Argentina, Rwanda, Bangladesh, and other countries.

These exhibits are richer in text than images. Also please note that the Agropolis-Museum is located in France and thus the materials on this website were created in French and translated. Some of the English text reads rather strangely and there are numerous typos.