Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sectors

Themes

The most sustainable production comes from working on optimal plant and soil health. That is what ILVO does.
Healthy crops
ILVO is committed to the study of possible future pathways for livestock farming and fisheries in Flanders, based on dialogue and science.
Societally acceptable animal production
ILVO aims to help eradicate malnutrition as well as an excessive food intake through knowledge about the functionality of primary products and process optimization.
Healthy diets
ILVO offers tools and trajectories to guide farms, fisheries and food companies toward better business models.
Profitable production systems and value creation
In the "Metropolis of Flanders" open space is within everyone's reach. That offers challenges as well as opportunities.
Rural development in urbanized Flanders
Agriculture is subject to climate change, and also contributes to it. Climate is thus an important challenge.
Climate mitigation and adaptation
ILVO is working to help create a circular bio-economy that offers opportunities for the agro-food sector.
Bio-economy
Marine production and the sustainable exploitation of the marine environment are becoming more important in the blue economy.
Marine production and the marine environment

Research projects

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

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Dossiers

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

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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

The problem of PFOS contamination in Zwijndrecht is dominating Belgian news. Many beekeepers are therefore concerned about the food safety of their honey.

Opening of the research greenhouse and pilot infrastructure for plant research "Agro-Incubator" at Nevele.

The third Newsletter of the Horti-BlueC is published! In this final Newsletter the main conclusions from the project are reported.

As a result of a VTM broadcast 'They say that' about hospital costs, a number of food scientists draw attention to interesting trajectories within a Flemish mixed network NuHCas.

We aim for a systematic and innovative approach to discovering active plant components and developing them into producible ingredients for cosmetic products that have both proven qualities and an acce...

Can you make plants more drought-resistant by exposing their tissues to specific soil bacteria in the lab? Plant scientists have long known that they can use this "bacterial breeding" to alter a plant...

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