国际竹藤组织International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR)

Case study of incorporating bamboo into landscape restoration for small

holders in China: multi-benefits beyond tree planting

KNOW INBAR

• Established in 1997 in China as the first global Inter-Governmental Organization

• Improve the lives of the producers and users of bamboo and rattan through sustainable management, use and trade of the resources.

• International Commodity Body for bamboo and rattan since 2001

• Headquarters in Beijing, China

• Offices in India, Ghana, Ethiopia, Ecuador

• Governed by a Council of Members

• Oversight by Board of Trustees

42 INBAR Members

The membership of Thailand will take effect from 1 November 2016.

Brazil would presumably join INBAR before the end of this year taking the membership count to 43.

WHY BAMBOO for LANDSCAPE RESTORATION?

• 1.21 meters: the maximum daily growth of a bamboo pole

• 3-6 years: the time it takes for bamboo to be mature and

harvestable

• 10, 000: number of documented uses of bamboo

• $60 Billion: the annual market value of bamboo and rattan

worldwide

• $2.5 Billion: International trading value worldwide

• $2 Billion: International trading value of China’s B&R in 2015

• 7.5 million: the number of people employed in China’s

bamboo sector

• Bamboo sector in China in 2015 amounted to $30 billion

WHY BAMBOO for LANDSCAPE RESTORATION?

Background

CRISIS

1998 flood

2001 Green for Grain

2014

New round

BASIC info of CHISHUI

• Chishui is located between 105° 36′ - 106°15’ E and 28°16′ -28°46′ N in the northwest of Guizhou province, bordered by the southern part of Sichuan

• 1852 km2 , 14 townships and 3 sub-districts• Altitude: 221 - 1730 meters above sea level• Population: 310 thousand, 230 thousand involved in agriculture.• The middle and lower reaches of the Chishui river, a tributary of the

Yangtse river, flow through the municipality.

• Subtropical humid monsoon climate, • The mean annual temperature is 18.1℃. • The average annual rainfall is 1292.3 mm, 80% concentrated from

April to October.

CHISHUI, GUIZHOU

• Located in the mountainous south western China’s Guizhou province, Chishui was also tremendously affected by the flood.

• By 2000, unsustainable agricultural practices, along with loss of forest cover led to major soil erosion of 32.5% or around 58,513 hectares of the total land in this region.

• Directly contributing to this, agricultural farming led to the erosion of 20,467 hectares of soil which amounted to 35% of the total soil erosion in this region.

Restoration with Bamboo in Chishui,

Guizhou

Restoration with Bamboo

• Over 300 species of bamboo in Chishui, of which 36 are endemic.

• Owing to its innate climate-smart benefits and its proven capability in preventing soil erosion, bamboo became an integral part of this massive afforestation drive.

>600 m, Monopodial (running) bamboo species (Moso)

<600 m, Sympodial (clumping) bamboo species (B. rigida, N. affinis, D. Farinosus )

Matching species to sites

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The total subsidy offered to farmers amounted to 398 million RMB.

The forestry bureau takes the onus of providing field investigations, planning, technical trainings, purchase support for seedlings, fertilizers and other necessary materials and bamboo production monitoring

The Steering group offices consist of multiple levels that cover the city and the villages and monitor the progress.

FACT: FLR achievements in Chishui

• In total, 52,880 ha of land restored with bamboo from 2001 to 2014.

• Nearly 40,000 ha of this restored land was recognized under the Green for Grain program (almost 14,000 ha was used for farming + 26,000 ha used to be barren mountains)

• The forest coverage has increased from 64.69% in 2001 to 80.17%in 2014.

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The total bamboo forest has increased from 35 thousand ha in 2000 to 87 thousand ha in 2014 which amounts to almost half a hectare of bamboo forest per-capita! It is now ranked number one in China for its per-capita bamboo forest.

Benefits beyond tree planting

IMPACT on Soil and Water Conservation

Based on field monitoring with scientifically-designed standard field runoff plots with regular observations on rainfall, soil and runoff processes occurring during heavy rainfalls in a year, the results show bamboo plantation has a great effect in conserving water and soil in hilly farming areas.

The through fall rate in a bamboo plantation is 89.14%, the average stem-flow rate is 1.57% and the canopy interception rainfall rate is 9.29%. The capacity of water conservation in volume by the liter in bamboo plantation is about 27.54t/ha, which is equivalent to the water contained by 2.4-3.3mm in depth in the total area of plots, being 14.46%-19.88% of the total amount of rainfall.As a result, compared with sweet potato farming lands, the average runoff quantity in bamboo plantation is reduced by 24.6%, and the average soil erosion quantity is reduced by 78.56%. The soil erosion quantity in sweet potato farming land is about 4.7 times higher than that in bamboo plantation. (Da, 2007)

• Owing to the afforestation drive, the sediment concentration in Chishui River reduced from 0.5 kg/m3 in 2000 to 0.282kg/m3 in 2013, dropping down by 43.6%.

• Soil erosion reduced by 353 thousand tons annually. (One bamboo plant can bind 6 cm3 of soil)

• Water Conservation: 6000 m3/ha annually

• Carbon sequestration: 198 thousand tons of carbon

• Improved habitat for wildlife and population increase: 92 bird species, 35 reptiles and amphibians, 20 fishes and 21 mammals that call Chishui home

PROVIDING Ecosystem service

Acting as a green bank for local farmers, bamboo provides income sources to improve their livelihood:

• 51 thousand households and 189 thousand farmers from 99 villages, 14 townships and 2 districts are directly involved in the Green for Grain program;

• The per-capita income from bamboo for the agricultural population, is approximately 2,870 RMB per year based on the 65% accessible Moso bamboo forests and 45% accessible Sympodial bamboo forests. It can reach 12,000 RMB with sustainable management practices.

SOCIAL-ECONOMIC IMPACT

SOCIAL-ECONOMIC IMPACT

Established Resource Base for industrial utilization

• Sympodial bamboo forest: increased from 11,000 ha to 43,000 ha;

• Moso bamboo forest: grew from 24,000 ha to 35,000 ha;

• By 2014, the forest stock of Moso was 82 million poles and the stock of Sympodial bamboo was 3 million tons.

Boosting sectoral development –enhanced supply chain

• 375 bamboo related enterprises in Chishui, providing more than 10 thousands direct job opportunities to the local population, supporting nearly 200 thousand farmers who are involved in bamboo supply chain and sectoral development.

With the development of bamboo sector, growing interest of local people in harnessing the economic potential of bamboo:

• Over 30 thousand farmers have shifted from primary industries to secondary industries and the service sector (42% increase)

SOCIAL-ECONOMIC IMPACT

SOCIAL-ECONOMIC IMPACT

Boosting sectoral development -Value chain

Chitianhua Bamboo Paper Pulp Co. Ltd, the largest unit of its kind in the world;

• Offers Direct employment: more than 500 people

• Supports thousands of households who supply the raw material

• Annual production: 200 thousand tons of bamboo pulp

• Consumed 800 thousand tons of bamboo chips in 2015

Bamboo chips mill in Bing’an5 million RMB Chitianhua Bamboo Paper Pulp

GLOBAL BAMBOO AND RATTAN CONGRESS 2017

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