From a ‘poor man’s timber’ to green gold’, bamboo is fast emerging as the super material of the 21st century. It is one of the fastest growing and highest yielding renewable natural resource making it a good substitute to wood in mitigating pressure on natural forests. Bamboo is a family of grass…
ASPIRE 1000 Bamboo MSMEs: Digital has the power to empower the future of Bamboo
From a ‘poor man’s timber’ to ‘green gold’, bamboo is fast emerging as the super material of the 21st century. It is one of the fastest growing and highest yielding renewable natural resource making it a good substitute to wood in mitigating pressure on natural forests. Bamboo has unrivalled capa…
World Bamboo Day Event in Dimapur on 18 September 2017 by Ministry of DoNER & NBDA to focus on building the bamboo value chain
From a ‘poor man’s timber’ to ‘green gold’, bamboo is fast emerging as the super material of the 21st century. It is one of the fastest growing and highest yielding renewable natural resource making it a good substitute to wood in mitigating pressure on natural forests. Bamboo is a family of gras…
Riding towards sustainable development: Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative create & generates employment
Although Ghana is rich in physical, cultural and intellectual resources, it is also a country with traffic congestion, environmental degradation, a stark urban-rural divide, low-employment and poverty. The Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative (GBBI) is a socio ecological green initiative that addresses …
Bamboo for biomass: A potential source of green bio-fuel
Discussion around renewable energy has always taken global center stage and featured as top priority for thought leaders in the quest to enable sustainable development. Surprising that bamboo, noted for its fast growth and high production, have not been leveraged as potential source of green bio-…
Bamboo is Green Gold. It is a super material and has immense economic potential
From a ‘poor man’s timber’ to ‘green gold’, bamboo is fast emerging as the super material of the 21st century. It is one of the fastest growing and highest yielding renewable natural resource making it a good substitute to wood in mitigating pressure on natural forests. Bamboo is a family of gras…
Bamboo shoots: It has immense health benefits and can enable income generation in villages
Bamboo shoots or bamboo sprouts are the edible shoots (new bamboo culms that come out of the ground) of many bamboo species. They are used in numerous Asian dishes and broths and are sold in various processed shapes, and are available in fresh, dried, and canned versions. Bamboo Shoots have a num…
Bamboo Homes in flood affected areas can be an Affordable Housing solution
Bamboo is one of the most environmental friendly construction materials. It is one of the fastest growing and highest yielding renewable natural resource making it a good substitute to wood in mitigating pressure on natural forests. Bamboo has a great potential to solve the scarcity of sustainabl…
Promote Bamboo for Climate Change mitigation; it has unrivalled capacity to capture carbon
Bamboo – one of the fastest growing and highest yielding renewable natural resource making it a good substitute to wood in mitigating pressure on natural forests. Bamboo is a family of grass; it matures in as little as 3 to 5 years much faster than hardwood trees. It sends out new shoots af…
Bamboo Technology Park opens in Assam; will usher in a new era of opportunities in the Bamboo Sector
June 22, 2017 | In a major initiative towards harnessing the huge potential of bamboo in the state, Assam has come up with a Bamboo Technology Park at Chaygaon, Kamrup district of Assam. “India has the second largest reserves of bamboo in the world. Leveraging this can spur gainful employment an…