Together, we motivated farmers to plant bamboo and assisted communities to establish community bamboo plantations to contribute to mitigating the excesses of climate change in the transitional zone of the country. We established a 10-hectare bamboo agroforestry demonstration farm and a bamboo nursery where farmers could easily get assess to bamboo seedlings to plant. Our ambition was to gradually turn slash and burn farmers to “Bamboo Agroforesters.”
Read more...I was selected as one of eight fellows of the World Bamboo Foundation’s Fellowship 2021/22. The Fellowship supported me to explore the implication of silviculture management of bamboo on timber development in developing counties.
Read more...Bamboo is known for its amazing growth. Some species manage growth spurts of 35 to 40 inches in a day and others reach heights of 80 to 100 feet when fully grown. But its fastest and most impressive growth is currently happening in every corner of the world as it finds its innumerable are being discovered and employed in myriad ways.
Read more...We are very excited to support the research of these 8 Global Fellows!
Read more...We are pleased to introduce the WBF Global Fellowship program, which will be awarded with a stipend for topics relevant to the investigation of timber bamboo and its potential contribution to mitigating global warming.
Read more...Position: WBF Global Fellow Term: January 2021 to January 2022 Application Deadline: 15 January 2021 Award Amount: from $5,000 - $20,000. usd
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