Company success stories
The innovation path of pioneering farms and enterprises often leads them via unpaved paths and the journay can be at times lonely. Those that do succeed in their ambitions to achieve a more…
Business Tools
This section contains tools developed under the frame of research projects. These tools aim to transfer the generated knowledge from researchers towards businesses via accessible tools, characterized…
Circular Economy introduction
Our global economy is burning through its resources at an increasing pace. Together with growing population, the linear economy model consisting of resource consumption, manufacturing and…
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End-of-Waste: a new business platform for valorization of organic by-products from agro-bio-food sector.
Initiated by UGent in 2018, the EoW is especially oriented to handle organic and biological streams and their transformation into higher value products in…
Valorization of contaminated land and development of sustainable value chains based on fiber crops
In the frame of the New-C-Land project, a pot experiment will be set up with a fiber crop, that will grow on different types of contaminated soils over Flanders,…
FaST: a new tool for sustainable use of nutrients
FaST (Farm Sustainability Tool for Nutrients) aims to make the use of fertilisers more sustainable for farmers in the EU, while boosting the digitisation of the agriculture sector. It…
European Commission delivers on Circular Economy Action Plan
The European Union is on a good track towards the circular economy. Three years after its adoption, the Circular Economy Action Plan can be considered fully completed. Its 54 actions have…
Food waste reduction: our joint responsibility
Food waste: more than an ethical or an economical concern
This is not only an ethical issue or an economical concern, but also an important challenge for our environment and our natural resources, which are essential…
Agricultural waste: a valuable resource
Livestock and crops waste: an uncomfortable reality
In the case of livestock industries, the production of meat, milk and eggs generates large volumes of waste with the consequent impact on the environment. If livestock…