General VITO, VIB and ILVO develop smart technologies together, towards more sustainable food production

Climate-robust crops are needed to perpetuate our food system against the vagaries of climate change. The cooperation between innovative research institutes VIB, VITO and ILVO brings us another step closer.

In this video, you can see how each institute brings its own expertise to the search for new, resistant varieties. The treasures of data provided by their advanced technologies make that search fast and efficient.

How exactly does that process work? From gene reading and a smart photobooth, to high-tech HYDRAS fields with drones and electrodes underground, eventually to field fields where satellite and drone imagery pick out the champion plants and predict yields? Too soon? Watch the video and find out what it all means.

Meet VIB, VITO and ILVO as a powerful innovation trio, with cutting edge technologies for impactful solutions for a sustainable food production system.