Presentation of the Global Assessment of Bamboo and Rattan for green development (GABAR) of the International Bamboo and Ratan Organisation (INBAR)

1. Global Assessment of Bamboo and
Rattan for green development
(GABAR)
Global Assessment of Bamboo and
Rattan for green development
(GABAR)
Trinh Thang Long
Caribbean International Bamboo Symposium 2018

2. North America: 1
Asia: 12
Latin America: 11
Africa: 20 Oceania: 1
International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation

3. Bamboo and rattan
1,642 species of
bamboo and 631
species of rattan

4. Global Distribution of Bamboo and rattan

5. Bamboo for climate change mitigation
• Building resilient capacity
• Carbon storage in bamboo forests
• High rate of carbon sequestration

6. Bamboo for climate change mitigation
• Carbon storage in bamboo products
• Bamboo products are low to
negative carbon intensity
• Substitute for higher carbon intensity
products

7. Bamboo help reduce pressure on forest
• Easy for management
• Fast growing
• Substitute for timber
• Substitute for fuelwood

8. Bamboo energy
• Bamboo pellet
• Bamboo charcoal
• Bamboo gasification
• Bamboo ethanol

9. Biodiversity
• Habitat for some of the
most endangered species
• Diverse species landscape
of bamboo forest

10. Erosion control and Land restoration
• Effective erosion control
• Restoring seriously degraded
land

11. Economic development
• Diverse products
• Jobs and poverty alleviation
• Global 60 billion trade value

12. Why NOTbamboo and rattan?
• Lack of vision and guidelines
• Lack of policy support (national and international)
• Lack of investors
Why lack of …?
Insufficient knowledge and information on bamboo and
rattan resources
Insufficient knowledge of bamboo and rattan potential
Limited knowledge of advanced technologies and markets

13. GABAR aims
• To provide reliable,
fundamental information
to policy makers
• To provide science-based
evidence to international
agencies
• To lay out investment
opportunities to donors

14. Bamboo forest mapping

15. Bamboo biomass and carbon assessment

16. Bamboo stock outside forest areas

17. Research and dissemination of
information
• Bamboo for land restoration
• Ecosystem service from
bamboo forests
• Bamboo for climate change
mitigation and adaptation
• Bamboo for energy
• Bamboo and rattan
management technical
documents
• Technology documents

18. Some available products
• World Checklist for Bamboo and Rattan
• World Atlas for Bamboo and Rattan
• Bamboo for land restoration
• Invasiveness study report
• Bamboo carbon sequestration
• Bamboo forest mapping in Ethiopia, Kenya,
Uganda, Madagascar, Vietnam
• Rattan resource assessment and rattan
value chain analysis in Cameroon

19. THANK YOUTHANK YOU
Trinh Thang Long
ttlong@inbar.int
www.inbar.int
Caribbean International Bamboo Symposium 2018