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.
The INBAR Garden at the 2019 Horticulture Expo in Yanqing, Beijing has been designed by Colombian-born Italian architect Mauricio Cardenas. An award-winning expert in bamboo construction with a long career in architecture, Mauricio is a member of INBAR’s Construction Task Force and runs a studio in Milan, Italy – Studio Cardenas Conscious Design. We can’t […]
Could bamboo composites forge a path for a sustainable automobile industry? An interview with Ivan Platas Martínez. An automotive engineer with 20 years of experience, Martínez is now leading a start-up, ‘GOYTI’, which is developing electric urban vehicles made out of sustainable materials—including bamboo. It is great to hear from someone in the automotive industry […]
As our new regional office opens in Yaoundé, Cameroon this year, we spoke to an up-and-coming young bamboo architect in the city, Lionel Tsagué, about his drive, motivations and vision for bamboo construction in the area, and how INBAR’s projects in the area helped him to get off the ground. INBAR has been profiling people […]
