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The AFC : Structuring harvesting professionals to promote sustainable and respectful management

  • Category: Aromatic & Medicinal Plants
  • Themes: Improvement of the working conditions and training
  • Position in the value chain: Harvesting
  • Type: Practice
  • Scale: National
  • Country: France
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AFC is the French Association of professionals wild plants pickers. It was created in 2011 to bring together professionals of wild plants picking and to promote this profession.
It defends sustainable commercial harvesting and a responsible profession.
It wishes to ensure the representativeness of the pickers with other operators in the sectors and the public authorities.

  • Keywords: aromatics and medicinal plants, business status, essential oils, good practices, professional charter, sustainable management, wild harvested plants, Working conditions

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INCREDIBLE project aims to show how Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFP) can play an important role in supporting sustainable forest management and rural development, by creating networks to share and exchange knowledge and expertise. ‘Innovation Networks of Cork, Resins and Edibles in the Mediterranean basin’ (INCREDIBLE) promotes cross-sectoral collaboration and innovation to highlight the value and potential of NWFPs in the region.

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‘Innovation Networks of Cork, Resins and Edibles in the Mediterranean basin’ (INCREDIBLE) project receives funding from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement Nº 774632.

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