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

Cultivation-related risks in dry-harvested yellow pea are still real even after recent research. That's according to an interim evaluation of PEAPACT and LEG-O.

Boerenbond and the Dutch agricultural organization LTO commissioned ILVO and think tank Clingendael to conduct a study on the impact of European policies on the fertile delta.

InnovOcean labeled for excellent accessibility

For the first time, the Flemish Expertise Center for Accessibility Inter, is awarding the A++ excellent accessibility label to a building. The InnovOcean Campus at Jacobsenstraat 1 in Ostend receives ...

The only trial platform in Flanders where agroecology is experimented with on a large scale is holding its fifth annual demo day on July 4. There will be demos with seed drone, robot, soil-sparing mac...

This policy advice constitutes 16 concrete recommendations on opportunities and obstacles for agroecology in Flanders. It is the product of socio-economic research on supporting agroecology as a guidi...

Land is and remains one of the most essential factors of production in Flemish farms. Much more than ownership, access to land is essential for farmers in this regard. Above all, the long-term securit...

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