NewsNew bamboo project kicks off in Peru
Authorities of the three institutions at the opening ceremony.
The regions of Piura, Cajamarca and Amazonas are the intervention areas of this initiative.
The project “Productive and technological innovation with bamboo in the border economic corridor of northeastern Peru – BAMBÚ NORORIENTE” is now being implemented with the aim of promoting sustainable bamboo production across the intervention areas of Peru.
This initiative emerged from a strategic alliance between the Peru Chapter of the Binational Development Plan for the Peru-Ecuador Border Region, the National Forestry and Wildlife Service (SERFOR) and INBAR.
The opening ceremony of the BAMBÚ NORORIENTE project.
The project will generate a model of productive and technological innovation to strengthen the technical, organizational and industrial transformation capacities of bamboo, which will directly benefit 300 producers and managers and indirectly more than 300,000 residents of the districts along the border of Ecuador.
The inauguration ceremony was held on 15 September in the city of Piura. In attendance were Oscar Schiappa-Pietra, Executive Director of the Peru-Ecuador Binational Plan; officials from SERFOR; Pablo Jácome Estrella, INBAR Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean; and local authorities.
The project will benefit more than 300,000 people.
During the event, new project partners were also announced, such as the Toribio Rodríguez National University of Mendoza and the Regional Government of Amazonas.
