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 HealthFlanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Sectors

Themes
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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.
Towards climatesmart agriculture -
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.
Find a dossierResearch projects
ILVO has an extensive Belgian and international network and is active in many projects.
Find a research project Research portalLiving 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 LabsNews
Evolution of public land ownership in Flanders inventoried for the first time

Food innovations for healthcare get more joint support from Flanders and the Netherlands with Memorandum of Understanding

A2A2 milk, something special in terms of digestion and processing. Website launched with scientific literature and practical advice

ILVO department head takes up prestigious advisory role on One Health at World Health Organization
Book launch "Tot de bodem": ILVO hopes for a thorough societal debate

The Living Lab for Agroecology and Organic Agriculture co-presents the thesis prize 'Organic Agriculture and Agroecology' during Agriflanders

Agenda
European Biomass to Power

Building up the success of its ten previous editions, the conference will give updates on the European biomass market and its new developmen...
International Conference on Renewable Resources & Biorefineries 2023

The 19th edition of the International Conference on Renewable Resources & Biorefineries will take place in Riga, Latvia from Wednesday 3...
Save The Date: EJP Soil Science Days and General Meeting
Make sure to mark the week of 12-16 June in your calendar!