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Bamboo offers significant potential benefits to the poor. The poverty impact mechanism through industrial bamboo is through an increase in farmgate price - a result of competition for large volumes of bamboo as input into the industrial system.
Bamboo’s potential to reduce poverty has been globally recognized. A good source of information on this and other bamboo related topics is The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan.
Bamboo is Good Business
Bamboo offers a new line of profitable processed timber and fibre business opportunities. Mekong Bamboo's team, its business and technology partners in China and its linkages with India have made us a leader in supporting firms to develop these opportunities.
As of mid 2010, Mekong Bamboo is providing services to 10 businesses planning to invest $0.5million and $5million in Viet Nam. These businesses range from domestic and international firms to investors.The level of interest in Mekong Bamboo's services is growing rapidly, and with our recent expansion of services and capability in China, we are looking to enable a new stream of investment in bamboo processing in the region and beyond.
Bamboo is Good Economic Development
Bamboo resources are widespread in the world. Thirty seven million hectares grow in mostly tropical countries and affect the lives of more than 1 billion mostly poor people. Developing bamboo industries and learning from Chinese development models provide an important opportunity for governments and policy makers.
Mekong Bamboo has policy and industry development projects with the major bamboo producing provinces of Thanh Hoa in Viet Nam and Houaphanh in Lao PDR. Mekong Bamboo is working in partnership with Viet Nam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to manage a policy dialogue and industry development strategy process with the aim to develop Viet Nam's first national bamboo initiative for Viet Nam.
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