Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sectors

Themes

ILVO aims to help eradicate malnutrition as well as an excessive food intake through knowledge about the functionality of primary products and process optimization.
Food and Health
ILVO is committed to the study of possible future pathways for livestock farming and fisheries in Flanders, based on dialogue and science.
Role of animal production in society
ILVO offers tools and trajectories to guide farms, fisheries and food companies toward better business models.
Profitable and resilient food systems
In the "Metropolis of Flanders" open space is within everyone's reach. That offers challenges as well as opportunities.
Farming and rural areas within an urbanized society
ILVO is working to help create a circular bio-economy that offers opportunities for the agro-food sector.
Bioeconomy and closed loops
ILVO combines promising new technologies with the so-called tacit knowledge held by researchers and stakeholders.
Precision agriculture and data technology
The most sustainable production comes from working on optimal plant and soil health. That is what ILVO does.
Healthy soil and crops
ILVO supports protein diversification on the condition that it contributes to a balanced, tasty, healthy and safe diet for a growing world population
Protein diversification
Agriculture is subject to climate change, and also contributes to it. Climate is thus an important challenge.
Toward climate-smart agriculture and food production
Marine production and the sustainable exploitation of the marine environment are becoming more important in the blue economy.
Marine production and marine environment

Dossiers

In the ILVO dossiers you get a handy overview of all available information, contacts and publications per topic.

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Research projects

ILVO has an extensive Belgian and international network and is active in many projects.

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Living Labs

Within so-called 'living labs' ILVO aims to further build on its role as a future-oriented and demand-driven knowledge center. Currently ILVO has 6 thematic living labs.

Living Labs

Bridge between DjustConnect (Flanders - ILVO), Agdatahub (France), and Tritom (Finland – DataSpace Europe & 1001 Lakes)

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ILVO puts its expertise and knowledge in the field of AI applications and robotics in agriculture and food production at the disposal of the Flemish AI Research Program FAIR.

21 European Food Safety Agencies Visit ILVO Food Pilot

Wide platforms for broilers to sit on or shelter under in the house have a positive effect on some animal welfare indicators without an adverse effect on growth, feed intake, feed conversion or certai...

How can individual dairy farms secure their future in the changing context ahead? Commissioned by the Flemish Land Agency, ILVO researchers have developed ten schools of thought around this question.