Protein diversification in food and nutrition
Study of the feasibility of growing and breeding protein crops such as soy, quinoa, lupin, peas, beans and lentils in Flanders
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Optimal cultivation of protein crops for poultry feeding
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Can we grow protein crops in Belgium?
...egetable burgers, ... These delicacies are made from chickpeas and yellow pea. Unfortunately, these protein crops come mainly from distant countries such as Russia or Argentina. So can't we grow su...
Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens shows up in the growing grain legume sector – a real threat?
...max), lentil (Lens culinaris) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum). In particular, the cultivation of protein crops harvested for dry grain – a.k.a. pulses – and of soybean is currently on the rise i...
From soil and protein crops to controlled data sharing and stray voltage. In Oudenaarde ILVO is once again showing surprising, useful innovations from agricultural research.
'Generation Food', new protein crops for food and feed With the Flemish protein strategy, Flemish agriculture is encouraged to produce local, sustainable protein crops. ILVO showed varieties of fi...
Breeding of forage and grain legumes to increase protein self-sufficiency in the EU and China
...This project fits perfectly into the Flemish and European strategy to promote the production of protein crops. The network of EUCLEG trial field locations covers a variety of pedoclimatic zones...
Local organic protein chain through collaboration between Biograno and LVEB
...oducts produced with local raw materials, demand-driven production of quality and food-safe organic protein crops. Development of a sustainable partnership where fair trade rules are strictly follo...
Legumes: indispensable element in agro-ecological crop systems for food production
...oductionWhat benefits and additional stability can be gained from strip cropping, especially in protein crops? This research question in the LEG-O project brings knowledge for the slowly increa...
Breeding European Legumes for Increased Sustainability
...ationThis project fills gaps in the Flemish and European strategy to promote the cultivation of protein crops. By putting advanced methods for phenotyping and genotyping into practice in existi...
Optimisation of soybean-rhizobia combinations for cultivation in northwest Europe
The quick start of Flemish chickpea production by connecting farmers
Quinoa grown in Flanders promoted via cycling and sport nutrition
Contribution of locally produced grain legumes to the agrobiodiversity
Leveraging cultivation and processing for improved faba bean protein functionalities in food
Levers and bottlenecks for growing, processing and consuming pulses (legumes) in Flanders
Beans for the love of Leuven
Catching rhizobia to introduce high protein containing soybean for a sustainable agriculture in Flanders
Chain-wide initiative for plant-based protein in cold greenhouses in Flanders
Is it economically and technically feasible to grow protein crops in temporarily empty cold greenhouses during the summer months?
Towards a sustainable and profitable soybean cultivation in Flanders
Setting up a local, sustainable soybean value chain.
...erships are needed to ensure a sustainable market. The results can serve as a model for other local protein crops such as field beans, lupins and peas. The choice of soybean meal as the basic raw m...
Building a local chickpea processing chain
Quinoa Local
Validating the use of endemic rhizobia for sustainable soybean cultivation in Northwestern Europe
Innovating for more legumes in Flanders with a focus on soy
Chickpea: Protein grown in Flanders
...nsition, food companies are looking for sources of plant protein. Several crops offer themselves as protein crops. KIK-Love has succeeded in sowing the seeds for new local partnerships that result ...
Evaluation of on farm toasting techniques to enable the use of local protein sources in animal feeds
General introductionDairy farmers who grow their own protein crops know that toasting (soy)beans results in remarkably higher feed efficiency. This project investigates how this toasting process c...
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 leguminous and protein crops show the way to the most feasible and further developable local vegetable protein chains. Chickpea,...