Can we grow protein crops in Belgium?
Elien De Rooze explains how farmers can grow protein crops and exactly what to look out for.
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BELIS project: Europe accelerates public-private development of improved legume varieties
A consortium of 34 partners from 18 countries will work together over the next 5 years to improve existing variety development programs by public and private breeders, seed companies and knowledge ins...
Plant-based proteins from farm to fork? Chain experiments deliver practical, tasty and promising results
Two years of intensive research and participatory experiments with five legume and protein crops show the way to the most feasible and further developable local plant protein chains.
Protealis raises EUR 22 million in competitive B-round funding to boost sustainable plant proteins
ILVO, as co-founder and shareholder of its spinoff PROTEALIS, is delighted with the successful January 2024 funding round.
A first: hummus and falafel with Belgian chickpeas for sale in at the Delhaize
Hummus and falafel made from Belgian-grown chickpeas: starting today, for the first time, now available at Delhaize.
First soybean field trials are successful and show efficacy of Flemish soil bacteria.
Researchers at VIB and ILVO successfully conducted the first-ever field trials of soybean based on new knowledge about the interplay between bacteria, soil and crop.
Local legumes deserve boost.
Market is slowly picking up due to divergent drivers among consumers, growers and processors.
Proteins from microbial fermentation get boost with The ProteInn Club
In Ghent, an innovation platform has been christened that will advance a fairly new (f)actor in the food landscape and the broader bioeconomy, namely proteins made through fermentation-based productio...
Which farm animals live off more human edible protein than they consume? Edible protein efficiency of Belgian livestock systems calculated for the first time
The ILVO study maps out for the first time the relationship between the vegetable proteins used as animal feed, and which in principle could also be used in human food, as well as the quantity of edib...