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

ILVO invested in high-tech infrastructure to search for solutions. The rain-out shelters and underground electrodes appeal to the imagination.

The Department of the Environment, together with INBO and ILVO, was able to measure soil carbon across all land uses for the first time in 50 years.

Project news | Project report | Publication 18/09/2024

Publiek grondbezit: data op aanvraag voor derden

U vindt hier de procedure die u dient te doorlopen om toegang te krijgen tot (een deel van ) de ILVO-dataset Publiek grondbezit in Vlaanderen en Brussel.

The BELIS project, launched in October 2023, focuses specifically on developing cost-effective breeding techniques and improving the framework conditions for breeding in Europe.

Prototype testing on fresh fruit and veg

ILVO supports the development of rapid and non-contact screening techniques. This offers opportunities for greater automation, efficiency gains and quality improvements.

For one in five of the professional farmers in Flanders and Brussels, at least 10% and on average a quarter of the acreage consists of public land. Total public land ownership in Flanders and Brussels...

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