NewsINBAR launches new project in Latin America and the Caribbean Region
The project will promote the use of bamboo in South-South cooperation to mitigate climate change.
On 9 February 2023, INBAR’s Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office officially launched the project, Promotion of Bamboo as a Nature-Based Solution for Livelihood Development and Environmental Management for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in the Latin American and Caribbean Region.
This initiative is developed thanks to funding from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) in coordination with different state institutions, academia and the private sector of the seven countries where the project is involved, including Panama, Cuba, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Its main objective is to promote South-South cooperation to face the challenges of climate change through the sustainable development of bamboo. During the virtual event, Rafael García, General Coordinator of AECID in Costa Rica, spoke about Spanish Cooperation support via the ARAUCLIMA program. “We are supporting INBAR in promoting bamboo because it is a tool for poverty alleviation,” he said.
In this context, Juan Ovejero, General Coordinator of AECID in Cuba, expressed the potential that Cuba can offer to the bamboo sector. “It is a good opportunity for Cuba to promote the resource,” he added.
Also taking part in this meeting were Víctor Cadavid, National Forestry Director of the Ministry of the Environment of Panama; Pedro Henry, General Director of the Agroforestry Research Institute-INIAF of Cuba; and Máximo Aquino, Director of Forests and Forest Management of the Ministry of Environment of the Dominican Republic.
The project will reach 400 rural producer families as direct beneficiaries, in addition to technicians, community leaders, specialists, researchers, public, private and academic actors. The project term will extend until 2025 and will involve knowledge and experience exchange between Colombia, Ecuador and Peru with the other countries of Central America and the Caribbean.
