Sustainable forest management: Foglie, innovative timber and energy organised supply chain group.
The Consorzio Forestale dell'Amiata was established in 1958 by the municipalities of Amiata Grossetano and tasked with managing the woodlands owned by the municipalities. The founders were joined in 2000 by the Comunità Montana Amiata Grossetano, which became the Union of Amiata Grossetana Mountain Municipalities. In this project, the main objective of the consortium is to recover the ancient tradition of charcoal kilns, the land and the modernisation of a building used to carry out the activities of the new sector.
The intervention also funded the innovation of the charcoal production system through the introduction of a kiln that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of processes and, above all, the working conditions of the human resources employed. The new technology introduced makes the charcoal burner's job less arduous, preventing the disappearance of an ancient and typical local craft. The second intervention allowed for the recovery of a partially abandoned area on which a nursery with an irrigation system has been built, producing local varieties of seedlings destined for the consortium's reforestation operations. The 'certified charcoal' part of the project included Italian operators in the sector attracted by the possibility of replicating the production process innovations implemented on Mount Amiata.
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