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Transcript of Bamboo Development The GreenPot Way
BambooDevelopment
The GreenPot
Way
Presentation by Kuki NjeruAt: Yaoundé On: 11-12 August 2016
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World Bamboo Resources
GOK – Catalyst for Economic Growth
Medium Term Plan 2013-2017 – Commercialization
of Bamboo
National Commitment 10% forest cover by 2030.
Bonn Challenge – GOK commits to restore 5.1 M
ha
2015 – National Committee to Fast track
Commercialization of Bamboo
BAMBOO
Kenya’s Commitment
Kenya’s High Potential
OPTIMAL SOIL AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS
AMPLE LAND THAT’S NOT
UNDER OPTIMAL USE
STRAGEGIC LOCATION. ACCESS TO
INTERNATIONAL MARKET
Bamboo and Kenya’s Economy
Why Kenya Needs Bamboo
TECHNICAL EXPERTISEKNOWLEDGE GAPMARKET AND POLICY GAP
COST AND SELECTION OF SEEDLINGS
SOCIO – ECONOMIC BARRIERS
SCARCITY OF BAMBOO
Challenges in Bamboo Development
GREEN POT’S IMPETUS
Economic
• Nurseries• Plantations• Factories• Cottage
industries
Social
• Training experts• Skill for cottage
industry Development
• Implementations of govt policy
Environment
• Restoration – river bank,
• Reforestation• Afforestation –
new plantation• Land use
management
THE INTEGRATION
Nurseries
GPE Parks
Processing
Plant
• In the beginning… Seedlings. Target production is 2 million seedlings annually
• We have set up three major nurseries in the different parts of the country in order to meet the demabd as well as ease the distribution challenges
• Setting up joint nurseries with KFS in order to scale out faster
Nurseries
Narok GPEL NurseryT. Mara GPEL Nursery
Nyeri GPEL Nursery
• We are able to create critical mass of forests to set up factories. We create bamboo concentrate clusters in different bamboo viable zones.– Gated Community of Forests– Large Scale Partnerships– Out grower Program– Large Scale Restoration
Bamboo Sourcing
GPE Plantations
Joint Venture Partnership
Out grower Program
Large Scale Restoration
Through the Gated community
JV partnerships 50 acres or more
On Farm - Individual Farmers
Large Scale Forestry Plantation
Plantation Distribution
Find a large piece of
land suitable for Bamboo
growth.
Subdivide into 2, 5 and 10
acre parcels. Get titles / Sub
- lease for each.
Once you buy/lease, we
clear, plant maintain, harvest
and buy it.
Gated Community of Forests
Passive Income
Sustainable Energy Supply
Job Creation In Farms
Great Value Preposition Up to 186% Return
Environmental Impact – Flood Control
Advantages of Gated Community
Community Outreach• We have an aggressive community outreach going
hand-in-hand with Gated Communities. This is a region by region contract farming program that encourages individual small scale and medium scale farmers to grow bamboo on behalf of the company.
• After identifying regions that are suitable for bamboo, we work with grass-root agents to create awareness, train and recruit farmers.
• Target is 3000 acres on this program yearly
GPE provides Seedlings &
Finance
X assists in Resource
Mobilization & Creation of CBOs
Farmers plant Bamboo
GP Industries purchase bamboo
from farmers
Outreach Model
• The greatest impact of all is the opportunity given to farmers to create wealth through job creation and stable income for the farmers
• Since the farmers are already seasoned n farming, the transition in bamboo
Advantages of Outreach
Where We Operate
• Degraded lands contribute to climate change (24% GHGs)
• In response to the Bonn challenge Kenya has identifies 50.3 million hectares for restorsation. Government committed to restoring 10% (5.1 million hectares)
• This is a great opportunity to scale out as we do good. The initiatives could include:–River bank and riparian land restorarion –Forest restoration–Gullies and wasteland restoration
Restoration and Climate Change
Kenya’s Restoration Potential
53.6Million
Total acres of potential areas
Total hectares GoK has committed to restoration
5.3Million
Forest area available for bamboo restoration
200,000Hectares
Hectares available for agroforestry restoration
8.6Million
This is done in partnership with organized community groups such as WRUA’s (Water resource associations), CFA’s (Community Forest associations) and corporate organizations. Through this effort we have been able to champion a number of restoration projects which include: • Mara River riparian land restoration (erosion)• South West Mau CFA restoration(deforestation)• Lake Magadi de-silting project (erosion and gully
restoration)
How We Restore
Restored Site in Oletukat - Narok
Gully Earmarked for Restoration by GPEL and other stakeholders –Bon Challenge
Bamboo Value Chain
Green Pot has embarked on the third phase of its integration process which is the establishment of bamboo processing factories.To this end, Green Pot has identified prospective partners and currently a lot of work is going on towards finalizing this phase.
The Industries
Cottage IndustryCottage industry is key in developing bamboo. We have very skilled handicraft workmanship that we would want to tap into. This is key to our CSR endeavors.
Lessons Learned
Government and private sector must work together in order to grow a vibrant bamboo industry. There is a need to support local communities plant bamboo. The international community will play a great role in this area through resource mobilization.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Kuki NjeruHead of OutreachGreenpot Enterprises [email protected]: +254 721 593 211,