More than 30 Amazonian women from the provinces of Napo, Pastaza and Morona Santiago celebrated International Women’s Day with a bamboo and leadership workshop. In the province of Pastaza in Ecuador, the workshop “Amazonian Women; Bamboo Leaders” was held on 7 and 8 March. The meeting was held within the framework of the “Bambuzonía” project, […]

The most important international event for the bamboo sector in Latin America will be held at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and the Universidad San Martín de Porres in Perú. “We resist and reinvent ourselves! We are bamboos!” is the name of the seventh edition of the International Bamboo and Guadua Symposium (SIBGUADUA), which […]

A social enterprise in the Philippines is building bamboo houses that are appealing to the middle class. Kawayan Collective, a bamboo social enterprise initially launched in partnership with the non-governmental organisation Base Bahay Foundation, is introducing an affordable new bamboo housing design in the Philippines, that with a crew of 10 people can be built […]