Large investments in industrial bamboo have a dramatic impact on raw bamboo demand and price, thereby directly increasing the income of the bamboo farmer.

Supporting investment in the Mekong bamboo industry is one of Mekong Bamboo’s main areas of intervention.

Mekong Bamboo directly assists innovative bamboo businesses that wish to invest in new industrial bamboo technologies.
We do this by:

• Developing and managing a pipeline of lead firms with interests in innovative bamboo technology
• Assisting firms to find investment partners
• Co-investing with selected firms to secure demonstration partners
• Capturing the impact of firm and enterprise level performance

Mekong Bamboo’s targeted investment promotion includes hosting investor visits, on-line and other marketing to potential investors, and leveraging government investment promotion activities. We connect foreign investors with provincial government leaders and business owners to facilitate direct discussions on business opportunities and help promote pro-bamboo policy.

Mekong Bamboo has regularly organized bamboo investment seminars for both domestic and international attendees, including Chinese and Japanese investors.

For a small set of catalytic businesses, we subsidize their investment and/or co-invest in new bamboo processing technologies. These businesses agree to serve as example sites for Mekong Bamboo to demonstrate new technologies to other businesses, donors and partners. These investment partner businesses provide Mekong Bamboo with detailed information on the impact of the new production technologies from an input, output, price and market perspective – which is critically important in monitoring the impact of the investment in the community.

If you are interested in more information on Mekong Bamboo Investment Seminars or in speaking directly with us about a direct investment in bamboo processing, please contact the Mekong Bamboo team at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .