New Delhi, NFAPost: As part of this year’s 15th World Bamboo Day, Global South Economic Forum (GSEF) is organising the 1st Global South Bamboo and Rattan Consultative Forum on the 19th of September 2024.
The 1st Global South Bamboo and Rattan Consultative Forum will shed light on the incredible significance of bamboo and further bring synergy in the mission to take its cultivation to greater heights across developing countries.
Expressing happiness over organising the event, Global South Economic Forum (GSEF) Group Executive Chairman and forum convener Abdul Dewale Mohammed said this renewable and biodegradable resource plant is the “green gold” of the world.
“Bamboo holds immense potential in sustainable development, poverty alleviation, food security and ecological security, as well as environmental conservation and cultural preservation. GSEF is working on a mission mode globally to further unfurl its economic potential,” said Global South Economic Forum (GSEF) Group Executive Chairman and forum convener Abdul Dewale Mohammed.
He also said the GSEF in partnership 35year old Indian Bamboo Society (IBS) and the Swiss Chinese Law Association (SCLA) urge ‘Policy makers, foresters, social thinkers, activists, product designers, entrepreneurs, architects, technocrats, researchers, investors, experts, farmers, artisans, scholars, students, interested institutions and associations, mainly from Africa, Arab, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean, to partake in the forthcoming international virtual discourse.
With its huge potential as a future sustainable crop, an industrial and highly eco-friendly resource, the GSEF and its evolving partners will work with the Global South Bamboo and Rattan Association (GOSBRA), the Group of 77 and China at the United Nations for the success of the event.
The forthcoming Webinar according to the India Bamboo Society President Punati Shridhar is designed to explore and maximise Bamboo’s potential to forge a ‘Socially & Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Economy” across countries of the Global South.
“We are the second largest producer in the world after China. India has over 136 species and 23 genera of bamboo spread across 13.96 million hectares, which is almost 13% of the country’s total forest area. Now it is high time that we should add value to it and for harnessing its business potential,” said India Bamboo Society President Punati Shridhar.
China which has around 6.67 million hectares of bamboo forests contributes to around 70% of the production around the globe. With the sustainable agenda flashing around the globe there is a renewed interest to go back to bamboo and its related products.
WEBINAR – 1st Global South Bamboo and Rattan Consultative Forum
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Date: Thursday September 19, 2024
Time: 12 PM GMT 5:30 PM IST
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