Climate change and soil health
This video abstract introduces the paper entitled "Soil and crop management practices and the water regulation functions of soils".
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DigitAF: Digital instruments couple the field with the cloud to stimulate agroforestry in Europe
ILVO is being called upon to develop tools that objectively measure and assess the impact of forest agriculture systems.
Soil Health Conference: Scientists and regenerative pioneers in dialogue
More biodiversity: how to achieve it, with what agronomic outcome.
A system analysis of carbon farming schemes in support of the wider implementation of carbon farming in Flanders (Belgium)
In the LIFE CarbonCounts project (LIFE20 PRE/BE/019), we explored carbon farming schemes that have the potential to be feasible, reliable and cost efficient for Flanders, the northern region of Belgiu...
Breeding: Plantain for nutritious biodiversity in pastures
In 2022, ILVO began breeding what many people know as a "weed": plantain. Part of the reason is the growing demand for biodiversity in our agricultural grasslands.
Quinoa, soy, chickpea, dry beans...and the parched field of 2022: results
Quinoa, soy, chickpea and dry bean, intended for the human food chain, are hardly grown in our region at present, if at all. But they represent promising new agricultural crops in ILVO's cultivation a...
Potatoes as viewed by the drone: the results
On a technology test field, ILVO conducted an unusual potato-precision farming trial during the 2022 growing season. Every three days, a drone with a camera took images of the plants (and any weeds).
PEUL-CHAIN aims to gain ground for legumes (pulses)
More legumes on our Flemish fields and on our plates. That is the goal of the new PEUL-CHAIN project.
The soil as key to handling climate extremes
How can a farmer guard against climate change? To answer that question, Sarah Garré, researcher at ILVO, plowed through more than 100 years of agricultural research. You can read the harvest of her r...