European Bamboo EXPO 2025
The 3rd European Bamboo Expo took place last Friday and Saturday 23 and 24 May 2025. I participated in the event through a short presentation, a discussion about a potential…
The 3rd European Bamboo Expo took place last Friday and Saturday 23 and 24 May 2025. I participated in the event through a short presentation, a discussion about a potential…
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) defines nature-based solutions as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively,…
I spent a few days in the Yorkshire Dales in the UK, which is a typical karst landscape. Karst is the way in which limestone landscapes are formed, and it…
When I was nominated as one of the candidates from West Europe for the IUCN Council, it was 2019 and the Coronavirus threat was not considered very serious. Since that…
Introduction Bamboo is a collective name for a group of botanical species that all belong to the grass family, the Graminea. The term applies both to the living plant and…
A climate resilient society has the capacity to deal with the effects of climate change, while responding to these changes with new approaches. The use of bamboo is one of…
For the past five years, I was the head of the Secretariat of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (www.inbar.int) in Beijing, PR China. I stepped down in April this…
This year’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) took place in Beijing, China. The event, hosted by President Xi Jinping brought together delegations from Africa and China led by their Heads…
The first Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress, BARC 2018, opened on 25th June 2018, in Beijing, China. Although it is already two months ago, I want to use this moment…
Late last week, I returned from Ordos in Inner Mongolia, where I attended the High-Level Segment of the UNCCD COP13. It was a busy three days, and I had a…
