Blanc, Simone

Brun, Filippo

Bruzzese, Stefano

Novelli, Silvia

English

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What new strategies for the governance and valorisation of Piedmontese chestnut forests? Stefano Bruzzese1, Simone Blanc1, Silvia Novelli1 & Filippo Brun11 Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA), University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, ItalyIV Convegno AISSA#under40Campus di Fisciano, 12-13 luglio 2023Corso di Agraria-DIFARMA - Università degli Studi di Salerno SWOT factors Ranking of global factors SWOT factors  Ranking of global factors O4. Increasing civil society's awareness of ecosystem services 1 T1. Climate change, pests and diseases  8 O1. Chestnut research projects 2 S6. Generational change of forest entrepreneurs  9 T2. Depopulation of mountain areas 3 W3. Weakly harmonised forest management  9 W4. Old machinery and poor support for innovation in processors 4 S2. Provision of ecosystem services (cultural and protection)  10 T4. Weak granting of subsidies and incentives for the forest-wood sector 4 W6. Modest public support for the provision of ecosystem services (PES)  10 O3. Forest certification and quality labels 5 W1. Negative stumpage value  11 T3. Lack of market knowledge and strong foreign competition 6 S3. Richness of wood assortments  12 S5. Vocational training initiatives 7 W5. Technological defects of wood  13 O2. Business networks 7 W2. Land pathology and orographic context  14 S4. Tradition of chestnut use 8 S1. Good resource availability  15 Analytic Hierarchy Process resultsNotes: S: Strengths; W: Weaknesses; O: Opportunities; T: Threats1. Introduction1.1. Research Question Which factors could be useful in enhancing the resource andstimulating higher value-added production chains?1.2. AimProposing new strategies for the valorisation of the resourcethat can also be prodromal of the socioeconomic revitalizationof marginal, fragile and inland areas, as well as bring addedvalue with a smart use of chestnut woodSweet chestnut trees surface: a) Italy (Fernández-López & Alía, 2009); b) Piedmont region (Gullino et al. 2020) ▪ A’WOT methodology, a multi-criteria analysis which mergesa qualitative method - SWOT matrix (Bruzzese et al. 2022) -and a quantitative method - Analytic Hierarchy Process▪ Data collection took place in two stages (n= 20 experts, July21-June 22): I) obtaining local or intra-criteria priorities ofSWOT factors; II) identifying global or inter-criteria priorities2. Materials & Methods3. Results▪ External factors: opportunities and threats as priority strategicelements▪ Internal factors: strengths and weaknesses deemed leastinteresting▪ Importance of civil society awareness and research▪ Profound recognition of the role of services in addition toproducts▪ Importance of strong know-how on resource use andmachinery innovation needs as internal strategic leversSCAN MEfor more information4. ConclusionsTake-home messages:▪ External factors as a leveragestrategy, as opposed tointernal ones▪ Difficulties in involvingstakeholders early in thedecision-making processImplications:▪ Importance of an effectiveand timely communicationwith stakeholders▪ Promotion of social learningand trust-building▪ Fostering of the crowding-ineffectFuture research:▪ Empirical evidences▪ Spatial upscalingLimitations:▪ Small sample▪ Snowball sampling technique▪ Threshold of comparablevariables with the AHP▪ 590+ thousand ha of chestnut coppices in Italy of whichabout 28% in Piedmont (Gasparini et al. 2022)▪ After WWII, about 40% of the national chestnut groves wereabandoned, due to several changing factors: depopulationof mountain areas, biotic adversity and socioeconomicchanges (Manetti et al. 2017)▪ The main wood-based value chain, apart from the fruit, istannin -> a Piedmontese company is a world leader(Bruzzese et al. 2023)Icon credits: Flaticon

What new strategies for the governance and valorisation of Piedmontese chestnut forests?

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