This Transfer of Technology Model is aimed at providing farmers, households, communities, and micro small charcoal producing enterprises with basic information on bamboo charcoal production and utilisation, with special emphasis on brick kiln construction and operation. It outlines the basic activities involved in bamboo charcoal production and takes the reader through a stepwise construction and […]

The seventh edition of INBAR’s South Asia Regional Newsletter.

The 34th edition of INBAR’s Latin American and Caribbean Regional Newsletter in Spanish.

The 35th edition of INBAR’s Latin American and Caribbean Regional Newsletter in Spanish.

The sixth edition of INBAR’s South Asia Regional Newsletter.

This profile on bamboo, created as a part of the “Specialty Crops for Pacific Island Agroforestry”, describes bamboo’s uses, characteristics, propagation, cultivation, pests, disadvantages, commercial and small-scale production, yields, and markets.

This study forms part of INBAR’s efforts to develop the bamboo sector in Africa and the Central African subregion in particular, in partnership with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and local partners. The study’s main objective is to conduct and analyse the production to consumption system of Cameroon’s bamboo sector and identify potential […]

Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are important in many ways for food security, livelihoods, and health of small farmers and forest dwellers in the developing world. Often they are traded internationally and in some cases the majority of a given product crosses international borders.Given the importance of NTFPs for many vulnerable groups, and the knowledge gap […]

Over the past decade since INBAR became the International Commodity Body for Bamboo and Rattan of the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), INBAR has pioneered the establishment of a number of CFC-funded value chain projects in bamboo and rattan in Asia and Africa that show real improvements in the incomes generated by the producers within […]

With the financial assistance from the Common Fund for Commodities, through the execution of INBAR and the technical support of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), Nepal’s Department of Forest Research and Survey has been implementing the Market Development of Bamboo and Rattan Products with Potential (MDBRPP) Project since 2005, with the overall objective of […]