At the heart of a Bamboo Village is a thriving agroforestry complex. Here, villagers create nurseries that increase bamboo’s growth and survival rate, even in the most degraded landscapes.

This agroforestry system encourages farmers to capitalise on native plant resources, which are perfectly adapted to suit the area’s natural environment. Our goal is to empower the community to efficiently manage their landscape, creating economic incentives that reinforce positive changes. We design our program to support the community with an integrated agroforestry system: socialisation, survey, transport, innovative coding, mounding, and sustainable harvesting.

We also make sure that our process takes place within the village economy, allowing local people to earn higher revenue and create more diverse, resilient and sustainable livelihoods. This ‘Value adding’ at village level ensures a more efficient supply and value chains, driving progressive innovation at every level from ecology to economics.