Satellite technology and fieldwork reveal the strong potential of bamboo to drive sustainable development and climate resilience in northern Peru. An innovative technical study based on satellite imagery and automated processing through Google Earth Engine has identified 6,434 hectares with the presence of Guadua aff. angustifolia, locally known as Guayaquil cane, in Peru’s northeastern corridor, which […]

Local builders were trained in bamboo construction techniques, contributing to the installation of a briquette plant in Piura. In the Piura region, 20 workers and construction foremen were trained in bamboo construction techniques as part of the project Productive and Technological Innovation with Bamboo in the Economic Border Corridor of Northeastern Peru. This initiative is […]

Communities in Manabí are advancing towards a greener future thanks to bamboo initiatives supported by the Spanish Cooperation On 6 May, the province of Manabí welcomed the visit of the Ambassador of Spain to Ecuador, H.E. Enrique Yturriaga Saldanha, accompanied by Elena Palomar, Country Coordinator of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), and […]

The classrooms of the Sol del Nororiente school—a space where education and sustainability come together to build a more promising future. In Jaén, Cajamarca, classrooms for the Sol del Nororiente school were built using bamboo and natural materials. This initiative is part of the project Productive and technological innovation with bamboo in the economic border […]

A project in Ecuador is driving sustainability and empowerment in Amazonian communities through the management of bamboo. As part of the project “Strengthening the production and commercialization of guadua bamboo by the Kichwa Women’s Association of Napo – AMUKINA and producers of the Quijos Nationality,” financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and with technical […]

On Youth Day in Cameroon, students from the Gamaliel Bilingual Elementary School visited INBAR’s Regional Office to learn about cultivating and making products with bamboo. As part of the celebrations on Youth Day in Cameroon, INBAR’s Central Africa Regional Office (CARO) organized the first open day for the Gamaliel Bilingual Elementary School of Messamendongo. With […]