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

Basket of fish with lots of trash "more trash than fish"

At the end of the MarinePlastics project, ILVO and KBIN present new and important facts about plastic pollution in the Belgian part of the North Sea. These findings have led to clear and concrete reco...

Rye will be "fish of the year 2021" in Flanders. VLAM is setting up a promotional campaign around this fish species, with remarkably many nuances and facts. Again, ILVO determined the sustainability o...

LA trail HappyCliMi is testing the use of rapeseed meal and draff in feed rations for dairy cattle in practice, as well as screening other locally-available feedstocks and byproducts for their potenti...

EMODNET (European Marine Observation and Data Network) aims to make marine data accessible to researchers, governments and private companies according to international standards. In phase IV of the EM...

Decontamination of residual soil from potatoes and root vegetables to make it free of nematodes and the weed called chufa or yellow nut sedge, as well as setting up a pilot plant at a processing plant...

Mixed crop of silage maize and climbing bean at PPAE Hansbeke

After one year of experimenting with agro-ecological cultivation measures, the partners of the Pilot Platform Agro-ecology Hansbeke showed the first interesting results on the 50 ha site. Trials with ...

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