Romain Cools News Today

Announcing the Resolution on the International Day of Potato by the United Nations

The World Potato Congress Inc. is pleased to inform you that the resolution on the International Day of the Potato has been adopted by consensus of the United Nations General Assembly earlier this week.

World Potato Congress Inc announces new President and Vice-President

The World Potato Congress (WPC) has launched a new project aiming to increase the crop's role in advancing global sustainable development.

A row over a huge processing plant has exposed flaws in the country’s reliance on a single crop. In Frameries, campaigners call for farmers to diversify

Former World Potato Congress director Ron Gall has passed Sadly, the World Potato Congress has learned of the passing of former World Potato Congress Director and International Advisor, Ron Gall. President Romain Cools issued a statement, saying:: “Ron was dedicated to the potato industry and in helping to make the World Potato Congress Inc. the world renowned organization that it is today. After 13 years of involvement with the World Potato Congress Inc., seven as an International Advisor a...

The chips are down: Belgium counts the cost of betting all on the potato Daniel Boffeyin Frameries, Belgium A humble frite with a dollop of mayonnaise is a revered thing in Belgium but, thanks to campaigners against a new mega-processing plant, the environmental and social costs of its mass production are being newly questioned at the highest levels of government. For three years, residents in Frameries, a town in French-speaking Hainaut in the south-west of the country, have b...