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The 10th World Bamboo Congress will take place in South Korea, hosted by the delegation of Damyang-gun and its County Governor, Mr. Choi Hyung-sik. WBO Executive Director Susanne Lucas and WBO President Michel Abadie traveled to Damyang last November to make the partnership official w

Dr. Nirmala Chongtham of Panjab University in Chandigarh, north India has been selected as Chair of the Technical Committee for the 10th World Bamboo Congress. She attended and participated as a speaker at the past two WBCs (Bangkok and Antwerp), and her work on bamboo as a nutritive

Forging a new spirit of bamboo in Damyang. Going to Korea this past November was more than going to a country with only the goal of preparing the next World Bamboo Congress. It was more than to visit the site and test the ability of the persons in charge to give right answers to the m

It is official!   WBO President Michel Abadie, WBO CEO Susanne Lucas and Damyang-gun Governor Choi Hyung-sik met this past week in Damyang, South Korea to commit to a full working partnership to organize the 10th World Bamboo Congress, 2015.    Governor Choi has made a tremendous impa

With great excitement and with great pleasure, the World Bamboo Organization announces the Official Hosts of the next World Bamboo Congress:     Damyang-gun, South Korea /  Summer 2015   For those present at the recent 9th WBC in Antwerp, Belgium, it may come as no surprise, although

Just to let you all know that the 9th World Bamboo Congress Proceedings are now available for download from the WBO website, along with many of the presentations.The Proceedings cost $20 usd / a donation to WBO / and the presentation files are FREE. See here: http://worldbamboo.net/wo

Greetings from the WBO,  It is with great pleasure that the WBO opens the process for determining the host and location of the 10th World Bamboo Congress. Please read here for the Invitation of Expression of Interest, including the requirements for hosting.  If your group is intereste

The World Bamboo Organization is a group of dedicated bamboo people.  We have no major fund sources, we are volunteers, we make things happen from sheer will.   I hope you will join us in keeping this momentum going………. We greatly appreciate the sponsorship coming fr

 Wow, what a week! I’m not the only one to express those words….many of the participants said the same! The 9th World Bamboo Congress kicked off unofficially in the lobby of the Lindner Hotel on Monday, 9 April, as participants came from their homes in Japan, Mexico, Taiwa

To those of you who will be with us in person here in Belgium for the 9th World Bamboo Congress, welcome! To those of you who cannot be here, but want to be, we invite you to find the LIVE STREAM on the web and watch along as we deliver an outstanding program in the best of bamboo sci