This presentation from 2017 uses the case study of Chishui, China. Bamboo was incorporated into landscape restoration for small holders and delivered multiple other benefits.

1. 国际竹藤组织
International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR)
Case study of incorporating bamboo
into landscape restoration for small
holders in China: multi-
benefits beyond tree planting

2. KNOW INBAR
• Established in 1997 in China as the first global Inter-
Governmental Organization
• Improve the lives of the producers and users of
bamboo and rattan through sustainable
management, use and trade of the resources.
• International Commodity Body for bamboo and
rattan since 2001
• Headquarters in Beijing, China
• Offices in India, Ghana, Ethiopia, Ecuador
• Governed by a Council of Members
• Oversight by Board of Trustees

3. 42 INBAR Members
 The membership of Thailand will take effect from 1 November
2016.
 Brazil would presumably join INBAR before the end of this
year taking the membership count to 43.

4. WHY BAMBOO for LANDSCAPE RESTORATION?

5. • 1.21 meters: the maximum daily growth of a bamboo pole
• 3-6 years: the time it takes for bamboo to be mature and
harvestable
• 10, 000: number of documented uses of bamboo
• $60 Billion: the annual market value of bamboo and rattan
worldwide
• $2.5 Billion: International trading value worldwide
• $2 Billion: International trading value of China’s B&R in 2015
• 7.5 million: the number of people employed in China’s
bamboo sector
• Bamboo sector in China in 2015 amounted to $30 billion
WHY BAMBOO for LANDSCAPE RESTORATION?

6. Background

7. CRISIS
1998 flood
2001 Green
for Grain
2014
New round

8. BASIC info of CHISHUI
• Chishui is located between 105° 36′ - 106°15’ E and 28°16′ -
28°46′ N in the northwest of Guizhou province, bordered by the
southern part of Sichuan
• 1852 km2 , 14 townships and 3 sub-districts
• Altitude: 221 - 1730 meters above sea level
• Population: 310 thousand, 230 thousand involved in agriculture.
• The middle and lower reaches of the Chishui river, a tributary of the
Yangtse river, flow through the municipality.
• Subtropical humid monsoon climate,
• The mean annual temperature is 18.1℃.
• The average annual rainfall is 1292.3 mm, 80% concentrated from
April to October.

9. CHISHUI, GUIZHOU
• Located in the mountainous south western China’s
Guizhou province, Chishui was also tremendously
affected by the flood.
• By 2000, unsustainable agricultural practices, along
with loss of forest cover led to major soil erosion of
32.5% or around 58,513 hectares of the total land in
this region.
• Directly contributing to this, agricultural farming led
to the erosion of 20,467 hectares of soil which
amounted to 35% of the total soil erosion in this
region.

10. Restoration with
Bamboo in Chishui,
Guizhou

11. Restoration with Bamboo
• Over 300 species of bamboo in Chishui, of which 36 are endemic.
• Owing to its innate climate-smart benefits and its proven capability
in preventing soil erosion, bamboo became an integral part of this
massive afforestation drive.
>600 m, Monopodial
(running) bamboo species
(Moso)
<600 m, Sympodial (clumping)
bamboo species (B. rigida, N.
affinis, D. Farinosus )
Matching species to sites

12. Administrative
approach
Financial
incentive
Technical
support
The total subsidy
offered to farmers
amounted to 398
million RMB.
The forestry bureau takes the onus of providing
field investigations, planning, technical trainings,
purchase support for seedlings, fertilizers and other
necessary materials and bamboo production
monitoring
The Steering group
offices consist of multiple
levels that cover the city
and the villages and
monitor the progress.

13. FACT: FLR achievements in Chishui
• In total, 52,880 ha of land restored with bamboo from 2001 to
2014.
• Nearly 40,000 ha of this restored land was recognized under the
Green for Grain program (almost 14,000 ha was used for farming +
26,000 ha used to be barren mountains)
• The forest coverage has increased from 64.69% in 2001 to 80.17%
in 2014.
Bing’an township 2001 and 2014

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The total bamboo forest has increased from 35 thousand ha in 2000 to 87 thousand ha in
2014 which amounts to almost half a hectare of bamboo forest per-capita! It is now ranked
number one in China for its per-capita bamboo forest.

15. Benefits beyond tree
planting

16. IMPACT on Soil and Water Conservation
Based on field monitoring with scientifically-designed standard field
runoff plots with regular observations on rainfall, soil and runoff
processes occurring during heavy rainfalls in a year, the results show
bamboo plantation has a great effect in conserving water and soil in
hilly farming areas.
The through fall rate in a bamboo plantation is 89.14%, the average
stem-flow rate is 1.57% and the canopy interception rainfall rate is
9.29%.
The capacity of water conservation in volume by the liter in bamboo
plantation is about 27.54t/ha, which is equivalent to the water
contained by 2.4-3.3mm in depth in the total area of plots, being
14.46%-19.88% of the total amount of rainfall.
As a result, compared with sweet potato farming lands, the average
runoff quantity in bamboo plantation is reduced by 24.6%, and the
average soil erosion quantity is reduced by 78.56%. The soil erosion
quantity in sweet potato farming land is about 4.7 times higher than
that in bamboo plantation. (Da, 2007)

17. • Owing to the afforestation drive, the sediment
concentration in Chishui River reduced from 0.5 kg/m3
in 2000 to 0.282kg/m3 in 2013, dropping down by
43.6%.
• Soil erosion reduced by 353 thousand tons annually.
(One bamboo plant can bind 6 cm3 of soil)
• Water Conservation: 6000 m3/ha annually
• Carbon sequestration: 198 thousand tons of carbon
• Improved habitat for wildlife and population increase:
92 bird species, 35 reptiles and amphibians, 20 fishes
and 21 mammals that call Chishui home
PROVIDING Ecosystem service

18. Acting as a green bank for local farmers, bamboo
provides income sources to improve their livelihood:
• 51 thousand households and 189 thousand farmers
from 99 villages, 14 townships and 2 districts are
directly involved in the Green for Grain program;
• The per-capita income from bamboo for the
agricultural population, is approximately 2,870 RMB
per year based on the 65% accessible Moso bamboo
forests and 45% accessible Sympodial bamboo
forests. It can reach 12,000 RMB with sustainable
management practices.
SOCIAL-ECONOMIC IMPACT

19. SOCIAL-ECONOMIC IMPACT
Established Resource Base for industrial utilization
• Sympodial bamboo forest: increased from 11,000 ha to 43,000 ha;
• Moso bamboo forest: grew from 24,000 ha to 35,000 ha;
• By 2014, the forest stock of Moso was 82 million poles and the
stock of Sympodial bamboo was 3 million tons.

20. Boosting sectoral development –enhanced supply chain
• 375 bamboo related enterprises in Chishui, providing more than 10
thousands direct job opportunities to the local population,
supporting nearly 200 thousand farmers who are involved in
bamboo supply chain and sectoral development.
With the development of bamboo sector, growing interest of
local people in harnessing the economic potential of bamboo:
• Over 30 thousand farmers have shifted from primary industries to
secondary industries and the service sector (42% increase)
SOCIAL-ECONOMIC IMPACT

21. SOCIAL-ECONOMIC IMPACT
Boosting sectoral development -Value chain
Chitianhua Bamboo Paper Pulp Co. Ltd, the largest unit of its kind in the
world;
• Offers Direct employment: more than 500 people
• Supports thousands of households who supply the raw material
• Annual production: 200 thousand tons of bamboo pulp
• Consumed 800 thousand tons of bamboo chips in 2015
Bamboo chips mill in Bing’an
5 million RMB Chitianhua Bamboo Paper Pulp

22. GLOBAL BAMBOO AND RATTAN CONGRESS 2017

23. THANK YOU!