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Appropriate and tasty food in health care and hospitals? NuHCaS works together with food companies and care
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.
EU project on plant-based cosmetics ingredients with scientifically proven effects
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...
With 'hairy roots', have scientists found a key to making plants more climate-robust?
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...
Methane from ruminants and climate impact: a difference between GWP and GWP star calculation
Ahead of the UN Climate Conference, next November 2021 in Glasgow, agriculture (researchers) are looking forward to whether or not the new scientific insights regarding the impact of methane will be a...
Plastic pollution in the Belgian North Sea: no alarming amounts of microplastics in fish and shellfish, plastic fibers everywhere and a hotspot near Zeebrugge
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...
Wanted: young 'changemakers' with broad network and a passion for agriculture and food
Europe is looking for 40 young changemakers who can and want to initiate sustainable change in the agri-food chain. In exchange for their ambassadorship, the young people will be offered training and ...
Agenda
Horti-BlueC webinar 4: New growing media blends for strawberry and tomato
From waste to resource: Interreg 2 Seas Horti-BlueC organises 4 webinars on the valorisation of 5 local byproducts into building blocks for ...
It’s all about data! Opportunities in the agri-food value chain
The ongoing digital transformation leads to new ways of producing, new products and new business models for the agri-food sector. The indus...
Past events
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Carbon Connects and CANAPE final conference
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