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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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...
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...
Setting up a local, sustainable soybean value chain.
...oy, but this project may eventually also serve as a model for the processing of other locally grown protein crops such as field beans, lupins or peas.FinancingVlaamse Overheid - L&V
Building a local chickpea processing chain
...lorizationIn Flanders, but also in Europe, protein diversification and the local cultivation of protein crops are being actively stimulated. Chickpea shows potential for helping shift to local ...
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...
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...
Levers and bottlenecks for growing, processing and consuming pulses (legumes) in Flanders
Beans for the love of Leuven
... food processing industry and consumers lack information on the possibilities with locally produced protein crops but we currently lack the necessary intermediate stakeholders to process local raw ...
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
Quinoa Local
Chickpea: Protein grown in Flanders
...or novel sources of plant proteins. Various crops, including chickpea, have great potential as high-protein crops. With KIK-Love we are developing an operational group consisting of all actors in t...
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,...
Potential of protein transition by locally produced faba beans
Saline Agriculture for Adaptation
Crop diversification for forage production on animal farms: focus on forage sorgho and mixed cropping of silage maize-climbing beans
Soy free chicken and pig production
Grass advice
...er? That is the central action question of the GRASADVIES project. Grass and clover are the largest protein crops in Europe. Many cattle farms do not yet fully exploit the potential of grass-clover...
A first: hummus and falafel with Belgian chickpeas for sale in at the Delhaize
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...