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...
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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...
Link between nutrition and health
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
Quinoa
...nteresting amino acid profile Flemish demand for quinoa is growing. This is mainly due to its healthy qualities, the trend towards protein diversification, and the success of target group nutri...
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
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...
Soil improvement with organic fertilizers
...arious organic products through pot and multi-year field trials. For further reading: Soil healthErosionSoil organic carbon
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Erosion
...ill be dislodged and washed off by impacting and runoff water. For further reading Soil health Soil compaction Soil organic carbon Soil improvement with organic fertilizers
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
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...
Allergens
...number of individuals with food allergies and the severity and frequency of symptoms, are a growing health problem within our society. As there is currently no effective remedy available, patients ...
Linked Themes: Food and Health
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...
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 ...
Food: Food safety
...Een overzicht van de chemische voedselveiligheid analyses. Also read these dossiers Gut health: ILVO's gut health platform aims to investigate the link between nutrition and health by mea...
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...
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
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
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
Genetic tool for Ecosystem health Assessment in the North Sea region
Sustainable use and management of marine resources is key for good ecosystem health
Precision livestock farming
...best possible way. In many cases, this technology is used for monitoring and improving the welfare, health, productivity, or fertility of the livestock.
Agroecology
...s a possible path towards a more sustainable food system. It is based on a list of principles about healthy processes and relationships between people, agriculture, and nature. More agroecology is ...
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Nutrition for target groups
Healthy food is not the same for everyone. What is nutritionally balanced and safe for one population group is not necessarily so for another. The challenges in the area of nutrition also differ great...
Linked Themes: Food and Health
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.
Algae: seaweed and microalgae
...products, microalgae contain all the essential amino acids (proteins) a human needs, in addition to healthy omega 3 fatty acids, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Their palette of flavors is als...
Bio-economy and Circular Agriculture for Soil Health
...omically viable, socially acceptable and long-term sustainable beyond the agricultural sector. Soil health is here an important criterion for assessing sustainability. Research approachILVO...
Optimizing calf health through a systematic approach and correct use of resources/tools
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...
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...
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.
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
Healthier plants and healthier substrates from residual flows! Horti-BlueC
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
To provide the Flemish poultry sector a heat action plan to maintain optimal health and the welfare of their poultry
..., water, climate and technical strategies as well as their combinations, on the production results, health and welfare of the animals under commercial circumstances. 3) We apply and/or evaluation t...
Soil Health Conference - World Soil Day
In Europe 60 70 of soils have been diagnosed as ‘non healthy’healthy’( 2020 Flanders is no exception The health of agricultural soils is crucial, not only for sustainable food production but also for ...
2022_12_05_Soil-Health-Conference_Master.pdf