Objective:
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.
Context:
In the context of the AMP sector growth, but also taking into account of the generalized degradation of the biodiversity, the French pickers wished to organize themselves to allow the recognition and the evolution of their profession. Indeed, the job of harvester remains little or poorly known, their status is imprecise, and commercial picking is often perceived as an informal and marginal activity, potentially destructive for the environment.
They wish to become real interlocutors in the sector.
Contacts:
Thomas Echantillac President of AFC, thomas.echantillac@outlook.fr, http://www.cueillettes-pro.org/
Michèle Lagacherie, CNPF délégation régionale Occitanie, https://occitanie.cnpf.fr/
Further information:
http://www.cueillettes-pro.org/
Claire Julliand, Florence Pinton, Raphaële Garreta et Jean-Paul Lescure - 2019 - Normaliser le sauvage : l'expérience française des cueilleurs professionnels. EchoGéo n° 47, janv-mars 2019. https://doi.org/10.4000/echogeo.16987