FTA has five research themes or flagships:

• Tree genetic resources to bridge production gaps and promote resilience
• Enhancing how trees and forests contribute to smallholder livelihoods
• Sustainable value chains and investment for supporting forest conversation and equitable development
• Landscape dynamics, productivity and resilience
• Forests, trees and agroforestry for climate change adaption and mitigation

Since joining in 2017, INBAR has been working on key research topics, which address:

• Bamboo resources mapping based on remote sensing
• The ecosystem services of bamboo forests and their assessment framework
• Bamboo as fodder
• Bamboo as renewable energy
• Bamboo carbon emission reductions
• Bamboo biomass and carbon assessment methodologies
• Conservation of bamboo and rattan species
• Sustainable management of bamboo and rattan resources
• Landscape restoration
• Bamboo agroforestry
• Bamboo for the circular economy
• Strategic development policies
• Farmers field schools
• Bamboo-water relations

Currently, we have published over 40 research reports and papers available on INBAR’s resources page and FTA’s resources page.

For more information about the project, please contact:

Yanxia Li, Senior Programme Officer, yxli [at] inbar [dot] int

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Bioversity International

CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center)

Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)

Tropenbos International (TBI)

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)