The Living Lab Circular of Inagro is aimed at optimising the role of agriculture in the circular economy through increased co-creation. This is not limited to circular solutions between farms but also between farms, industry, and society. Relevant themes within agriculture are water, nutrients, biomass, and energy.

Examples of previous projects are converting the fibres from the stems of Brussels sprouts into paper or testing cleaned wastewater from food industry as an irrigation source for vegetables. Also, anaerobic digestors can convert manure or food waste into heat, energy and upgraded fertilisers.
The LLC exists of a network of 20 stakeholder organisations from each party within the quadruple helix (society, industry, research, government). Furthermore, all pilot installations available at Inagro could be used for research at a practical relevant scale. This includes but is not limited to, insect halls, aquaculture installation, anaerobic digestor, greenhouses, climate rooms, adapted machinery for field trials, arable lands, …

To make the Living Lab possible, >200 people work full time on agriculture research within the sectors of soil and water science, animal husbandry, agro-ecology, and crop production. Both convential and organic farming are covered. Furthermore, mushroom, insect and fish farming are research lines which push the boundary of the state of the art. Finally, we sometimes exceed the state of the art within duckweed and single cell protein production.