Commercial scale community bamboo harvesting
Traditional vegetation based bamboo production of four villages of Meung districts in Lao PDR, are being shifted to industrial processing oriented bamboo production. This is being done with the technical and operational support from ForInfo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. The project allowed for improved management practices, participatory decision making, beneficial opportunities for villagers, and the private sector, as well as reducing CO₂ emissions.
Author: The Center for People and Forests - RECOFTC
Organization: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Year: 2020
Country/ies: Lao People's Democratic Republic
Geographical coverage: Asia and the Pacific
Type: Practices
Full text available at: https://www.fao.org/teca/en/technologies/7948
Content language: English