Bamboo plays an important role supporting climate action and addressing UN SDGs. Recently, innovative uses of bamboo see it being used for infrastructural purposes such as pipelines, pre-fabricated housing, and carriages of high-speed trains.
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New INBAR Board Chair Professor Lucie Edwards discusses the importance of an integrated farming system, her twenty-year wait to become chair of the INBAR Board of Trustees and why to her, bamboo is ‘a Shmoo’. When Professor Lucie Edwards, then a Canadian civil servant in the department of foreign affairs and Chair of the International Center […]
November 2018 will see INBAR’s Caribbean International Bamboo Symposium, an exciting event packed for varied stakeholders and covering a wide range of topics related to bamboo in the region. INBAR will hold its annual Caribbean International Bamboo symposium on 27 and 28 November 2018 in Jamaica. The event promises to bring a wide variety of […]
INBAR works with local partners to deliver key training sessions on community enterprise development for bamboo charcoal, an eco-friendly, economically viable alternative to wood charcoal. Since 2014, INBAR has been implementing the project South-South Knowledge Transfer Strategies in three African countries: Ethiopia, Tanzania and Madagascar. Supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the […]