Environmental research

The Non-Timber Forest Products (bamboo) is providing a stable income to almost of the population in Ban Na, Thaphabath district, Bolikhamxay province. Slash-burned for cultivations, make a room for rubber plantation; lack of technique collecting bamboo shoots and bamboo poles; lack of knowledge and skills in term of processing to adding value of bamboo poles; over harvested of the bamboo shoots and bamboo poles due to high markets demand and lack of tools for sustainable harvesting tools (rotation of harvesting) are key constraints of the bamboo production in the community. Project is to help community to do inventory and forest management plan for sustainable harvesting of the wild bamboo and promoting it as one of major income sources for the poor farmers and especially women through the development the necessary tools as well as knowledge, skills, and organizational capacities to take responsibility in their own hands and safeguard bamboo resources.

Lao Peoples Democratic Republic