Breeding: Plantain for nutritious biodiversity in pastures
Breeding: Plantain for nutritious biodiversity in pastures
Part of the reason is the growing demand for biodiversity in our agricultural grasslands.
Breeding: Plantain for nutritious biodiversity in pastures
Part of the reason is the growing demand for biodiversity in our agricultural grasslands.
Digital Tools to help Agroforestry meet climate, biodiversity and farming sustainability goals: linking field and cloud
Automatic monitoring of biodiversity in the North Sea? eDNA is the key!
Main research questionWith the long-term view of fostering synergies between crop production, biodiversity and the delivery of ecosystem services of local, regional and global relevance, the main objective of the SoildiverAgro project is the adoption of new management practices and cropping systems.
Soil biodiversity enhancement in European agroecosystems to promote their stability and resilience by external inputs reduction and crop performance increase.
ILVO together with UGent investigated the link between landscape and functional agrobiodiversity with the help of citizen scientists and their 40 square-meter gardens in the citizen science project BEL-Landschap (2018 and 2019).
Landscape-scale biodiversity under pressure The diversity of biological life (biodiversity) in the agricultural landscape is under pressure. Intensification of agriculture in the recent past has led at the field level to economies of scale and increased use of fertilizers and pesticides, among others.
Biodiversity and ecosystem services in relation to agriculture
Goal The conference aim is to facilitate the needed paradigm shift from the current focus on chemistry to an agronomy propelled by biodiversity Scientists, advisory services and farmers who have made this shift will inspire their peers as well as policy makers.
productivity, resilience and competitiveness of European Animal Production, Improve and manage resource use to reduce waste and enhance the environmental sustainability of European Animal Production and Improve on-farm practices to enhance consumer acceptability and address societal challenges associated with animal welfare, product quality and safety, biodiversity
Main research questionFABulous Farmers (where FAB stands for Functional Agrobiodiversity) stimulates farmers to transition towards more agro-ecological practices on their farm. The project is active in in 5 countries (BE, NL, LUX, FR & UK) in a total of 12 pilot regions.
A substantial part of our assignment includes research to provide the population with high-quality food in a sustainable manner (including preserving our natural resources, climate-neutral, maintaining biodiversity, etc.).