Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Themes

• Food and Health

  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
• Role of animal production in society

  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
• Profitable and resilient food systems

  ILVO offers tools and trajectories to guide farms, fisheries and food companies toward better business models.

  Profitable and resilient food systems
• Farming and rural areas within an urbanized society

  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
• Bioeconomy and closed loops

  ILVO is working to help create a circular bio-economy that offers opportunities for the agro-food sector.

  Bioeconomy and closed loops
• Precision agriculture and data technology

  ILVO combines promising new technologies with the so-called tacit knowledge held by researchers and stakeholders.

  Precision agriculture and data technology
• Healthy soil and crops

  The most sustainable production comes from working on optimal plant and soil health. That is what ILVO does.

  Healthy soil and crops
• Protein diversification

  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
• Toward climate-smart agriculture and food production

  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 marine environment

  Marine production and the sustainable exploitation of the marine environment are becoming more important in the blue economy.

  Marine production and marine environment