Gut health
Nutritionally balanced and functional food can contribute to good gut health, which supports overall health. ILVO's expertise in nutrition and digestive physiology is applied to specific target groups...
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Soil health
Healthy soils are as important to life on earth as clean air and water. Healthy soils not only lead to healthy and productive crops, they also provide numerous additional ecosystem services such as cl...
Plant health
ILVO plant health experts in the Diagnostic Centre for Plants The ILVO plant health experts working in the accredited Diagnostic Centre for Plants focus every day on the detection and identifi...
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Food: balanced and healthy
...lanced, safe, and tasty food for a growing global population, within a sustainable and economically healthy framework. How can both primary production and the processing industry – as important lin...
Linked Themes: Food and Health
NuHCaS (Nutrition Health Care Systems) 2.0 - connecting nutrition, health and care
Linked Themes: Food and Health
The goal of NuHCaS (Nutrition Health Care Systems) remains to bring together the nutrition, health, and care sectors in an open research and innovation center.
European Reference Lab Plant Health - on bacteria
https://eurlplanthealth.nl
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
The second Coordination and Support Action for the JPI Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life
http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu
Linked Themes: Food and Health
Enhancing soil health through values-based business models
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Which reward mechanisms work best to promote farming practices that stimulate soil health in Europe
Unlocking the Power of Microalgae for Liver Health
Harnessing microalgae to build a healthier future, starting with better liver health: That is the starting point of the ALGA-CARE research project.
Bio-economy and Circular Agriculture for Soil Health
...nutrient, energy and biomass cycles in multifunctional agroecological production systems, with soil health as a sustainability criterion?" ILVO evaluated biochar as a renewable fertilizer, in combi...
Ecosystem based management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems
The ECOSCOPE project aims at improved fisheries management that balances a healthy marine ecosystem with sustainable fisheries.
Health and wellness effects of early feed for broiler chicks
...ptimal feeding strategy for young chicks in the broiler sector, so that they grow into stronger and healthier animals with less need for antibiotics.
Genetic tool for Ecosystem health Assessment in the North Sea region
Sustainable use and management of marine resources is key for good ecosystem health
NuHCas: Open research and innovation center at the interface between food and health
Linked Themes: Food and Health
...S initiative is an interesting, active B2B community with the shared goal of getting the nutrition, health and care sectors to collaborate more intensively around 'better food for healthy care need...
Digital technologies for plant health, early detection, territory surveillance and phytosanitary measures
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
ERA-Net Cofund on INtesTInal MICrobiomics, diet and health, implementing JPI HDHL objectives
https://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/era-net/hdhl-intimic/partners
Linked Themes: Food and Health
GENOme based PREDICTion of risks posed by Viral Pathogens in a OneHealth approach
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
...echanisms and evolutionary dynamics. These are crucial for epidemic preparedness and global (plant) health security. NPPO promises to pay attention to keeping the database up-to-date, essential for...
Optimizing calf health through a systematic approach and correct use of resources/tools
Microplastic Contamination in agricultural Soil ecosystems and the effect on soil and plant health
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
The MiCoS project, a collaboration between Ghent University and ILVO and financed by ERC, wants to define the effects of microplastics on soil and plant health
Food and Health
With the healthcare sector, we work on feasible, nutritionally balanced meals for different target groups. For the primary sectors, we are developing raw materials with even more interesting component...
Farmer stress and mental well-being
...ctors, removing barriers to effective coping, and promoting mental health. Strategies and relationships between the strategies to support a positive working context for farm families Future re...
Desealing
...ides more space for nature and food production, less flooding, cooler cities, greater biodiversity, healthier air and a better climate. In this way, we are focusing on climate adaptation and climat...
Methane emissions in livestock farming (enteric emissions)
...ng of young cattle reduces emissions from (non-lactating) young cattle. In addition, improved health of the dairy cows results in a lower replacement rate, which in turn reduces the need for (non-l...
Animal welfare
...el show how the five freedoms can overlap and diverge at the same time. The principle of "Basic Health and Biological Functioning" focuses on the physical condition of the animal, including goo...
Internet-of-animals: design and development of an integrated health and welfare monitoring system for dairy cows
...meness, and heat stress).Research approachThe first work package investigates the design of health and welfare tracking algorithms based on the combination of localization and accelerometer...
Ecosystem-oriented marine modeling and management
...vided to the policymakers, on how our activities affect food web interactions and the ecosystem’s health. 3. Climate change Building predictive models can also be explored to analyse long...
Protein diversification in food and nutrition
...lar dietary pattern such as vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian, for animal welfare, sustainability or health reasons or simply because it tastes good.For conventional animal protein sources such ...
Biodiversity in and on the sea floor
...s to species using genetic techniques. In the framework of the GEANS (Genetic tools for Ecosystem health Assessment in the North Sea Region) project, a standardized and time- and cost-efficient met...
On-farm composting
...> Soil improvement with organic fertilizers Soil: carbon sequestration Erosion Soil health
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Soil processes and fertilization
...lization Most common misconceptions Natural processes in the soil have a significant impact on soil health and quality, and are therefore important for soil function and crop growth and yield. Unde...
Supporting VITIculture expansion in BELgium through knowledge building on phytosanitary risks and diagnostics while raising plant health awareness among stakeholders
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Healthy soil and crops
...he quality and ecosystem functions of agricultural soils go hand in hand with efforts to keep crops healthy and cropping systems robust. We strive to minimize risks of nutrient losses, greenhouse g...
Sustainably produced plants and healthy soils go hand in hand.
To provide the Flemish poultry sector a heat action plan to maintain optimal health and the welfare of their poultry
...cting the animals from heat stress. If they fail to do so, it is detrimental to animal welfare (health declines, mortality rates rise), and the farmer may suffer heavy losses. Research approach...
Food Intake Ecosystem: Towards a data ecosystem for food and care: Food intake as a stepping stone towards a health data space
Linked Themes: Food and Health
How can we know the actual nutritional intake of a person (patient, rest home resident...) within a healthcare context? The FINE project is looking for a way to monitor this in a user-friendly way.
Healthy soil, a healthy plant ... with a touch of plastic?
...ow many microplastics (small particles of plastic) are found in field soils? How do they affect the health of soil and crops? And might a solution lie just beneath our feet, with bacteria and fungi...
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops