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The short chain is getting the wind in its sails, and global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, are unexpected catalysts. Citizens are becoming increasingly involved in the food system and the role agriculture plays in it. Consumers find their way to the farm store and the local farmer.

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Short chain

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Building a local chickpea processing chain

This is partly due to limited cultivation knowledge (varieties, bacterial inoculum, cultivation mechanization) and partly due to the lack of a local chickpea processing chain.

Building a local chickpea processing chain

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It’s all about data! Opportunities in the agri-food value chain

Opportunities in the agri-food value chain

In order to tackle these challenges, reliable and correct data, across the food value chain are needed. Capturing, processing and analysing data are at the core of every digitalisation process. Furthermore, data have to be collected and shared from farm to fork, across the value chain.

The industry 4.0 wave offers significant opportunities and challenges for the agri-food value chain.

Research projects

Setting up a local, sustainable soybean value chain.

The goal is to develop a mutually fair and transparent business model to enable a local, integral and long-lasting value chain for organic soy in Flanders. Research approachUnder LoCoSoy, we unite growers, processors and retailers into a project consortium where each contributes to a total sustainable and local soy chain.

Setting up a local, sustainable soybean value chain.

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