
KEBBE: collaborative resources to better understand the forest and its bioeconomy
KEBBE is a cross-border educational project financed by the Euroregion and carried out in collaboration with partners from the Basque Country (Arabako, Bizkaiko eta Gipuzkoako Baso Elkarteak), Spain (Foresna), and France (IEFC). The objective of this project is to create educational content for primary and secondary school teachers to use as a knowledge base on […]
Resin extraction gets a boost with the SustForest+ project
Resin extraction is on the rise and the SustForest+ project has given it a boost. The closing meeting of this European Interreg-Sudoe project was organised by the European Institute of Cultivated Forest and the Centre Régional de la Propriété Forestière de Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
It took place on 9 and 10 November 2021, at the Regional Council […]
Towards an Intelligent Information Management of Complex Forests in Southwest Europe
Development of bio-based resin products in Europe
The SustForest+ project, in close collaboration with the INCREDIBLE inter-regional innovation network on resin, has made it possible to develop resin tapping and transport processes, calculate the carbon footprint of this product, set up a European origin label, develop traceability and monitor global market trends.
Exchanges between Resin Tapping Stakeholders in France
Global experts call for action to leverage the potential of non-wood forest products for Europe’s green economy
At the time when the stronger development of the bioeconomy will help the European Union accelerate progress towards a circular and low-carbon economy, global experts on non-wood forest products (NWFP) are calling on European and international institutions, governments, policy makers and private sector to recognize and leverage the potential of those products and consider them […]
Pine oleoresin market in the context of a health crisis
International
trade data for oleoresin and the primary processing products rosin and
turpentine are not always made transparent by the customs services of the
different countries. Therefore, one of the objectives of the SustForest+
project is to offer a view on the evolution of the international market to
European stakeholders of the pine oleoresin sector.
The
COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on […]
Tapping Experiment – SustForest+
80 years later, research on the factors influencing resin productivity continues in Aquitany
Collection of resin from pine on dry heathland, one day since tapping
In France, pine resin production reached its peak in the 1930s and about 100,000 litres of resin per year were produced in the Landes forest at that time. From this period, there […]