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 HealthFlanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Sectors

Themes
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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.
Find a dossierResearch projects
ILVO has an extensive Belgian and international network and is active in many projects.
Find a research project Research portalLiving 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 LabsNews
IPMWORKS shines at European Parliament Hearing on Sustainable Pesticide Use

Horizon Europe's ClimateSmartAdvisors Project Takes Off, Supporting Europe's Bold Climate Goals

Farmers and citizens - Bottlenecks and opportunities in mutual cooperation

From residual stream to raw material: FLAXIT project valorizes flax seed

Activiteitenverslag ILVO 2021 - kopie

After Brexit, a different future for Flanders fisheries

Agenda
Save The Date: EJP Soil Science Days and General Meeting
Make sure to mark the week of 12-16 June in your calendar!
GEANS Final Event - Online lunch meeting
Improving marine environmental monitoring through application of DNA-based methods
GEANS Final Event webinar - Improving marine environmental monitoring through application of DNA-based methods

GEANS strived to harmonise DNA-based tools for routine monitoring programs conducted in support of policy and decision making concerning mar...
Het ontcijferen van het bodemmicrobioom en de relatie met bodemgezondheid (doctoraat Lisa Joos)
Lisa Joos (ILVO - Universiteit Gent) verdedigt op 28 juni 2023 haar doctoraatsstudie 'Hindernissen overwinnen: Het ontcijferen van het bodem...
International Symposium on Food Allergens

Within the framework of Belgian National Reference Laboratory, ILVO, FASFC, Wageningen Food Safety Research and CER Groupe, are pleased to i...
26th Conference on Food Microbiology (BSFM vzw/asbl) - kopie
After the difficult Covid-19 period, we are very pleased to invite you to the Twenty-fifth Jubilee edition of the Conference on Food Microbi...