A short chain in the poplar system to enhance wood quality productions
The general objectives of the project are:
- to favor replanting of poplar to guarantee wood supply as continuous as possible;
- to develop certified poplar wood production throughout the supply chain;
- to create a continuous and strong relationship between the CO strengthening the spirit of the supply chain;
- to improve the visibility of poplar wood production, enhancing its environmental sustainability.
Implementation of an agreement between poplar growers and actors in the poplar supply chain (nurseries, poplar growers, lumbermen, plywood companies) to guarantee production and enhance the quality of timber.
- Development of traceability software for forest certification.
- Calculation of the detailed budget of the annual CO2 absorption of a poplar stands and evaluation of the Life Cycle Assessment of poplar wood.
- Economic evaluation of the sustainability of the short supply chain.
- Drafting of a technical specification for innovative poplar groves.
- Quantification of main ecosystem services.
- Communication and dissemination of the results obtained during the project activity.
The role of the poplar wood supply chain has always represented for Italy an agricultural and industrial excellence, also recognized internationally. In the face of a growing demand for poplar wood from industry in recent years, the national availability of wood material has decreased. The collapse of the surfaces is connected to above all economic and market reasons: high costs of the cultivation and low remunerative wood prices, especially if compared with other agricultural productions (i.e. maize). The economic success of poplar cultivation is strongly influenced by the characteristics of the assortments obtainable at the end of rotation: it is therefore essential for a farmer to produce high quality timber. The timber deriving from poplars managed in a sustainable way and certified according to the PEFC or FSC standards are not economically valued by the industries and, given that for the certification the farmers pay costs annually, the certified surfaces are reduced while the industries go abroad for obtaining certified material. The new poplar clones greater environmental sustainability (MSA), made available to cultivation in the last years, are not yet well known by processing companies.
The activation and diffusion of an organized and innovative production and marketing system, as well as being regulated and structured, arises from contingent market needs and from the improvement of the technical quality of the material produced in Piemonte. The supply chain proposed in this project does not involve the mediators, a role that has never been questioned over the years. The mediators in fact play a role that is almost essential to the wood processing industries today: they take charge of the negotiations with the companies, they buy the wood material and take care of the logging and transport, selling to the best buyer. The short supply chain will have to make it possible to facilitate direct dialogue between farmers and industries, greatly improving the profitability of producers and forest enterprises, while maintaining those essential services of bargaining, cutting, testing, extraction and transport that would be coordinated by Geoponica S.r.l. that would assume the role of technical coordinator of the entire supply chain in close collaboration with the leader VIGOLUNGO SPA, supported by CREA and by PEFC-Italia for all the operations of definition of the disciplinary and quantification of the Carbon stock useful for the sale of the same on the voluntary market .
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