TERRA Day (2024)

On May 22, 2024, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech organized the fifth edition of TERRA Day, a day to discover the research being carried out at Gembloux.

On the program: 11 presentations by our researchers, focusing on the environment, food design, agriculture, forest and landscape management, and the valorization of bioresources for the pharmaceutical, agri-food and energy sectors.

• Animal Science
  Chicken for Ivorian consumers, but not the same for everyone!
  
• Chemistry for sustainable food and environmental systems
  When chemistry opens up the field of possibilities for sustainable food and environmental systems.
  
  
• Biosystem dynamics and exchanges
  Mission Ecolo-From Farm to Fork: The Journey of Food Products and Their Environmental Impact
  
  
• Water Soil Plant exchanges
  Discovering soils
  
  
• FoodIsLife (CARE)
  Co-products of the Walloon agri-food industry: how can they be valorized? Discover CARE Food is Life
  
  
• Sustainable pest management
  Essential oils for plant protection
  
  
• Managing forest resources
  Trees grow! Tree growth and measurement methods.
  
  
• Plant Science
  From Gene To Field
  
• Modeling and development
  "Le Pain qu'on Sème": a podcast to discover alternative bakeries in Wallonia
  
  
• Food technology
  Reinventing food products through new transformation processes (shearing)
  
  
• Environment Is Life (CARE)
  Growing broccoli in 2095: visit the Ecotron growing chambers

Watch the radio report on Auvio (RTBF - Matin Première - May 23, 2024 - min. 53:00)