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General 09/04/2021

Levers for scaling organic and sustainable food systems

FOODLEVERS aims to identify levers to further develop and scale up innovative organic food systems.

Press release 16/03/2021

Farmers learn from farmers - why farm demos are so important for knowledge building among farmers

It was already suspected that mutual learning, whether or not via farm demos, is essential for knowledge acquisition among farmers. Thanks to the research conducted by ILVO and KU Leuven education spe...

Press release 27/04/2020

Effects of the Corona crisis on individual agriculture, horticulture and floriculture companies?

ILVO launches a survey.

Press release 08/10/2019

Mental stress in farmers is serious. (Seeking) help could be better

On the Global Day for Mental Health (10 October 2019), ILVO draws attention to the first interim results from its research into the well-being of the Flemish farmer (male and female)

Press release 07/10/2019

Joris Relaes is new president of the agricultural platform Agrolink Vlaanderen.

Joris Relaes, Administrator-General of ILVO, has been appointed chairman of Agrolink Flanders. He succeeds Nadine Buys, former dean of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at KU Leuven.

Press release 06/02/2019

The Innovation Support Center and ILVO are looking for examples of cooperation in agriculture, nutrition and rural development

EU Rural Innovation Contest launched by LIAISON

Press release 13/11/2018

Lessons learned from 5 years of Pilot Projects for a Productive Landscape (PPPL)

Manifesto with 5 recommendations for successful alliances between agriculture, landscape and design

Press release 29/10/2018

Unhealthy stress and the liveability of the Flemish farming family – call for participants in new research study

ILVO is starting a delicate investigation into the well-being of farm families. The intention is to find out the degree of long-term stress present in these families, what the causes are and how that ...