A multi-stakeholder approach has been initiated in the Hautes Vosges on stubble in the Markstein – Grand Ballon sector to preserve the resource of Arnica montana ssp montana and its natural habitat (the “high stubble”), to maintain the economic issues that represents its picking, while reconciling the other uses of high altitude grasslands where this plant grows : cattle grazing, grass harvest, outdoor sports (skiing, gliding).
A territorial and multi-stakeholder organization for sustainable harvesting of Arnica in its mountain stubble habitat (Hautes Vosges)
- Category: Aromatic & Medicinal Plants
- Themes: Improvement of the working conditions and training
- Position in the value chain: Harvesting
- Type: Practice
- Scale: Local
- Country: France
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