Discovering Agriculture

A complete introduction to the world of farming, from its origins to its current challenges, to understand how the food we eat every day is produced.

Panel by panel:

• The beginnings of agriculture in the Neolithic and the birth of settled societies
• The farmer's profession today: a real business shaped by the seasons
• Intensive and extensive livestock farming: yield, animal welfare and environment
• Field crops: wheat, maize, rapeseed, sunflower, beet, potato…
• Wheat and rice, the staple cereals of the world's diet
• Educational farms, direct sales and diversification
• Towards sustainable agriculture: water, soil, hedgerows, biodiversity and organic farming

Audience: all ages, particularly suited to school groups. Ideal for: an event on food, an agricultural show, a "farm to fork" educational project.