Embassy of the United States

The Foreign Agricultural Service

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) mission is to link U.S. agriculture to the world to enhance export opportunities and global food security.  In the Central Europe-Baltic Region, FAS has a regional office in Warsaw that also supervises an office in Prague.  The office covers six nations, all members of the European Union, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.  As a regional office operating inside the European Union, FAS Warsaw-Prague works closely with the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussel.  We also work closely with various U.S. agricultural cooperator organizations to identify and expand market opportunities for U.S. agricultural products and facilitate contact between local importers and U.S. exporters.

United States Department of Agriculture Programs to forward Polish Agriculture and Science

American-Polish Youth Vegetable Garden Project Unveiled

17 June 2010

On June 8, Deputy Chief of Mission William Heidt and Agricultural Counselor Eric Wenberg unveiled the American-Polish Youth Vegetable Garden Project.  Students from the American School of Warsaw created a fruit and vegetable garden to watch its growing season, and the produce harvested will be consumed in the school’s cafeteria. [more]