Ghana is the present leader in the West Africa region in terms of bamboo and rattan sector development, and second only to Ethiopia in Africa as a whole.
This brief reflects on the experiences and lessons gained through INBAR’s work in Ghana to foster development of a bamboo and rattan sector that contributes to the achievement of broader national and global goals.
In a new series exploring international ‘bamboo heroes’ from all walks of life, INBAR presents a profile of Kate Rawles, British adventurer, environmentalist and bamboo bike enthusiast. Kate Rawles, who grew up in Scotland and now lives in picturesque Cumbria in northwest England, has been passionate about environmental issues her whole life. After a career […]
As 2017 draws to a close, we consider the work of the South-South Knowledge Transfer Strategies project. For millions of disadvantaged people in Eastern and Southern Africa, bamboo has high potential for contributing to poverty alleviation, environmental protection and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Bamboo can be easily integrated into agriculture – including wastelands, […]
In response to a succession of ecological crises – the Yangtze floods (1998) and a severe drought in the Yellow River basin (1997) – in 1999 the Chinese government launched the world’s largest landscape restoration programme. The Conversion of Cropland into Forest Programme aimed to restore degraded farmland into forests and provide a number of […]