Ensuring sustainable forest management while strengthening the competitiveness of the forest and woodproducts sector is a major challenge for the economic development of rural areas in the Center-Val de Loire region. Upstream actors in the sector face two challenges: first, harvesting more wood to meet the increasing demand for wood products and renewable energy without deteriorating the already poor soils predominant in the region's forests; and second, finding solutions to help forests adapt to climate change. In the PSDR DEFIFORBOIS project, researchers and actors from INRAE, ONF, FCBA, Fibois, CNPF and Unisylva have joined forces to carry out: i) a prospective analysis of the means required to ensure an increased harvest of forest resources for regional logging companies'; ii) a technical and environmental diagnosis of local whole-tree harvesting practices and their impact on soils and biodiversity so as to propose recommendations for sustainable fuelwood harvesting methods adapted to the regional context.