Paper presented at the 52nd CFCS Annual Meeting, Guadeloupe, July 10-16, 2016
BAMBOO INNOVATION Hassankhan Tanwir, Boejharat Varsha and Jagernath Jane Anton de Kom University of Suriname and Leysweg 86. Keywords: Bamboo, bamboo products, innovation, tropical resources Abstract Bamboo is a tribe of ancient woody grass species native to many tropical and temperate regions of the world. It grows fast and is a major non-wood forest product and wood substitute. Bamboos also have played, historically and currently, an important economic and cultural role in many parts of the world. It is used for housing, crafts, pulp, paper, panels, boards, veneer, flooring, roofing, fabrics, oil, gas. In spite of bamboo’s importance worldwide, global statistics on its resources, production and trade remain rather scarce and inconsistent. The use and marketing of bamboo products could assist in generating income within the community without having a serious environmental impact upon surrounding forests. The rapid growth in the use of bamboo is bringing concern about the sustainability of global bamboo resources. Despite the successful bamboo trade, very little is known about the actual status and dynamics of the bamboo resource base. When bamboo is grown, not only the nature is protected, it can also lead to a social and economic empowerment. Bamboo has received increasing attention over the last two decades for its economic and environmental values. The physical and environmental properties of bamboo make it an exceptional economic resource for a wide range of uses and for poverty reduction. Synopsis This video is about the quickly changing image of bamboo from the poor man tree to a high tech industrial raw material. Bamboo is an increasingly important economic asset in poverty eradication and economic and environmental development. The movie starts with a boy, stressed out from work, not able to come with any new ideas. The narrator informs him about the innovative approach of bamboo to quantify a possible range of bamboo uses, by showing him multiple examples of innovative bamboo products. The movie ends with the narrator telling about some benefits of bamboo innovation and leaving the guy behind with a new innovative idea.
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