Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

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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.
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.

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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

The microorganisms naturally present in peat alternatives such as compost and (natural) management residues can stimulate plant growth as well as naturally suppress plant diseases, often even better t...

ILVO brings its extensive potato expertise to the largest open-air fair for potato growers.

Landing and marketing shrimp uncooked, long storable and yet without loss of quality or food is now more successful thanks to new and optimized techniques. These techniques are the result of doctoral ...

Climate-friendly farmer on stage with researchers

A global comparison of the ecological footprint of milk, conducted by ILVO, shows that nowhere is milk produced as climatically efficient as in Flanders.

Hummus and falafel made from Belgian-grown chickpeas: starting today, for the first time, now available at Delhaize.

Tim Vleugels explains fodder radish nematode resistance

From summer 2025, as many as 5 new varieties of leafy radish will be available on the market. And they are very special: these leaf radish varieties are able to purify the soil of 2 types of parasitic...

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Contact day

Final conference - Small-Scale, Big Impact: innovative approaches for local food processing

26/09/2023 Food Bank Brussels and the Atelier des Tanneurs 1000 Brussels

At the FOX project's final conference the transformation of large-scale food processing into small, mobile, and flexible units will be unvei...

Title of the PhD: "Optimizing part-time group housing for female breeding rabbits"

Contact day

27th Conference on Food Microbiology (BSFM vzw/asbl)

12/10/2023 → 13/10/2023 Brussel

The programme of the 27th ‘Conference on Food Microbiology’ in Brussels on October 13th and 14th 2023 is now available on www.bsfm.be.

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Past events

Contact day

International Symposium on Food Allergens

21/09/2023 → 22/09/2023 Pacheco Room (Entrance Finance Tower), Boulevard Pacheco 13, 1000 Brussels

Doctoral defense | Study day

Het ontcijferen van het bodemmicrobioom en de relatie met bodemgezondheid (doctoraat Lisa Joos)

28/06/2023 ILVO Plant, Caritasstraat 39 9090 Melle

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Peat-free potting soil another step closer. Beneficial microorganisms in peat alternatives can stimulate plant growth and health.

ILVO shares its potato expertise at Potato Europe 2023

Alternative to cooking shrimp opens culinary and economic possibilities for our "Caviar of the North Sea"

Most climate-friendly milk comes from ... Flanders

A first: hummus and falafel with Belgian chickpeas for sale in at the Delhaize

ILVO develops 5 new varieties of double-resistant fodder radish

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Final conference - Small-Scale, Big Impact: innovative approaches for local food processing

Public defense Liesbeth Van Damme

27th Conference on Food Microbiology (BSFM vzw/asbl)

Past events

International Symposium on Food Allergens

Het ontcijferen van het bodemmicrobioom en de relatie met bodemgezondheid (doctoraat Lisa Joos)

GEANS Final Event - Online lunch meeting

Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

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