In order to learn about successful experiences in sustainable technologies in different animal and plant production systems in the Brazilian Amazon region, a mission of students from French Guiana, a French domain that integrates the transnational Amazon territory, is performing a technical visit to Embrapa Eastern Amazon. Buffalo farming, fish farming, organic vegetable production, and Agroforestry Systems (AFSs) are among the subjects that brought the group to Brazil in a visit that is going to last about a week and cover different towns within the metropolitan region of Belém, Northeast Pará state and the Marajó archipelago. The exchange started on April 14, as they travelled from Belém to the town of Salvaterra, in the Marajó. On site, the students, future farmers and farm managers, were able to see the Marajó Experimental Field and the Animal Germplasm Bank (Bagam, from the acronym in Portuguese), in which Embrapa develops genetic resource conservation projects and production systems with buffalos. Cachoeira do Arari, one of the main buffalo dairy production centers of the islands, also comprised the itinerary with respective milk and Marajó cheese producing farms in the community of Retiro Grande. On Monday (17), the group visited Embrapa's premises in Belém and the corporation's fish farming station, where they learned a little about breeding tambaqui in captivity, and an organic horticultural property in the town of Benevides. The mission participants attend the Centre de Formation Professionnelle et de Promotion Agricoles de la Guyane (CFPPA) in Matiti, about 40 km away from Cayenne, capital of the French Guiana. The teacher Margaux Llamas, who accompanied the students, explained that their course lasts about 10 months and at the end, the students will be qualified to request lands and other incentives to agricultural production to the French government in the Guiana. At Embrapa, they were welcomed by the deputy head of Technology Transfer, Silvio Brienza Júnior. He explained that this knowledge exchange between Brazilian and Guianese Amazon also strengthens the Embrapa's mission, which is to promote sustainable technologies for the region, as, despite the fact that Pará and French Guiana have different settlement histories and cultures, they share the same Amazonian biome. Expectations to boost production in the French Guiana The students are from several towns in the Guiana, with different origins and interests derived from the agricultural course. Some are children of farmers and intend to take the knowledge acquired in their training to follow and improve their familiar traditions; others seek new careers and market niches. The daughter of farmers Liliane Va, 27, is a descendant of Mongolian communities who migrated to Guiana. Her family cultivates citrus and vegetables, and with the course, she intends to remain in the agricultural activity with, however, new techniques and own land that she hopes to have access to after the course conclusion. Among the students who visited the Brazilian state was the Pará-born Luan Lima de Abreu, 26. Luan moved with his family to the neighboring country when he was only six years old and today, despite his Master's degree in computer science, he decided to look for a new occupation, in which he could simultaneously once again experience Pará's flavors and stimulate a new market in Guiana, by producing and trading fruit from Pará's Amazon region. For the student, learning about the production systems recommended by Embrapa and about successful experiences of local producers is essential for the group's training. “In Guiana, most agricultural technologies in use came from Europe, which has climate and soil that are completely different from the Amazon biome. Embrapa's experience is going to help us give production a new direction, with systems that are more adapted to our reality”, evaluates Luan. The technical visit goes on until April 21. On Tuesday (18), the group moves on to Tomé-Açu, where they will stay until the 20th, and where they will visit farmer associates of the Tomé-Açu Mixed Agricultural Cooperative (Camta), in order to get to know different AFS models with vanilla, African palm oil, and fruit, and learn about fruit processing and small animal breeding. Translation: Mariana de Lima Medeiros