Bambú

Muchas plantas consideradas invaluables para el pequeño agricultor ofrecen alimentos nutritivos para la familia, forraje para los animales o madera para la construcción. ¡De manera sorprendente, el bambú ofrece los tres activos de la misma planta perenne!

  1. Bambú para construcción

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    17/5/2018 Muchas plantas consideradas invaluables para el pequeño productor ofrecen alimento nutritivo para la familia, forraje para los animales o madera para la construcción. ¡De manera notable, el bambú ofrece todas estas tres ventajas en una sola planta perenne! Esta Nota Técnica se centrará en cómo...
    Bamboo preservation Bamboo Bamboo Construction

  2. A Lesson in Agroforestry

    1/7/2004 Agroforestry: In its simplest definition (as quoted by ECHO's Technical Note "Agroforestry Principles"), "agroforestry is the production of trees and of non-tree crops or animals on the same piece of land." It should be viewed more as a creative process than as a set technique because it is...
    Agroforestry

  3. El Resistente Bambú

    23/10/2017 En septiembre pasado, la Finca Global de ECHO en Florida enfrentó un golpe bastante directo del huracán Irma. Luego de su paso, una cosa quedó bastante clara, algunas cosas caen y algunas no (ver nuestro video corto, After Hurricane Irma). Este es un hecho pertinente para nuestros esfuerzos...
    Bamboo Resilience

  4. El bambú

    18/10/2016 La reputación del bambú se basa en gran medida en las peculiaridades intrínsecas de ciertas variedades. La planta puede crecer un metro por día y es parte de la dieta básica de los pandas gigantes; aunque es una hierba, puede crecer hasta una altura de 30 metros con tallos de madera huecos que...
    Bamboo Bamboo preservation Appropriate Techno...

  5. Appropriate Construction Technologies for Community Development

    Geoffrey Wheeler,Center for Vocational Building Technology Appropriate Construction Technologies for God's People, their Animals and Grain There are many appropriate building technologies available. How environmental friendly are they? Earthquake resistant? Typhoon resistant? How can we introduce...
    Construction Appropriate Techno...

  6. Bamboo for Fences

    20/7/2011 A visitor to ECHO from Nigeria told former intern Randall Fish about a method of creating fences using bamboo.
    Bamboo Fencing Fences

  7. Grasses and Bamboos A Practical Guide

    1/1/2006 This book is a general introduction to ornamental grasses and bamboos. The author describes how to grow and propagate them, and suggests many imaginative ways to make the most of them in your garden.
    Bamboo Grasses Ornamental Grasses

  8. Aloha Organic Farms - Sanitary Bamboo Straw Factory

    A slideshow documenting the process for making straws from bamboo.
    Bamboo Agrobiodiversity c...

  9. Cephalostachyum pergracile

    Tinwa bamboo is a clump-forming, evergreen bamboo with short rhizomes. The erect, thin-walled culms can be 10 - 30 metres tall and 50 - 75mm in diameter with internodes 30 - 45cm long. The plant is widely harvested from the wild for its useful canes. It is also sometimes cultivated, both within...
    Rice Bamboo Tinwa Bamboo Asia

  10. Bamboos

    1/1/1992 Bamboos are fascinating for their beauty, elegance and variety of form, not to mention their importance in the symbolism of Far Eastern poetry and art. Garden designers have for a long time recognised the many possibilities offered by this unique plant. Here the reader is offered all the...
    Bamboo Gardening Bamboo-Utilization

  11. Producing & Marketing Value-added Farm Products-Supplemental

    4/10/2019 Example of Value-added farm products- Straw Factory operation at Aloha House, Palawan, Philippines
    Bamboo-Utilization Asia

  12. The Nutritional Facts of Bamboo Shoots and Their Usage as Important Traditional Foods of Northeast India

    Abstract, International Scholarly Research Notes, 2014 Bamboo shoots are considered as one of the useful health foods because of their rich contents of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, fibres, and minerals and very low fat. Though bamboo shoots provide lots of health benefits, their consumption...
    Bamboo India Asia

  13. Precooking processing of bamboo shoots for removal of anti-nutrients

    Abstract, Journal of Food Science Technology, 2011 July Bamboo shoots being low in fat, high in dietary fiber and rich in mineral content, like an ideal vegetable have been used traditionally. Besides nutrients, bamboo shoots also contain lethal concentration of the anti-nutrient (cyanogen) that...
    Bamboo Cooking Antinutrients

  14. Environmental Bamboo Foundation

    The founder of Indobamboo, Arief, is a second generation bamboo specialist, following in the footsteps of hismother Linda Garland, who founded the Environmental Bamboo Foundation. Linda is well-regarded for putting in place theground work that mademany giant leaps possible forindustrialists,...
    Forests Bamboo Carbon Sequestration Erosion Control Asia

  15. Biochar and Compostization: Maximization of Carbon Sequestration with Mitigating GHG Emission in Farmlands

    ABSTRACT, FFTC In Japan charcoal has been used for a long time as environmental improver, soil improver in a firm, water purification material and odor adsorbent. It was reported that biochar has proliferation effect of symbiosis microorganisms such as root nodule bacteria and mycorrhiza in farm...
    Biochar Composting

  16. World Bamboo Organization

    The World Bamboo Organization is a diverse group consisting of individual people, commercial businesses, non-profit associations, institutions, and allied trade corporations that all share a common interest = BAMBOO. The purpose of the WBO is to improve and promote this common interest, as well...
    Bamboo

  17. Appropriate Construction Technologies for God’s People, Their Animals, and Grain

    3/10/2017 There are many appropriate building technologies available. How environmentally friendly are they? Earthquake resistant? Typhoon resistant? How can we introduce new materials to a traditional construction culture? Why would we want to produce our own materials? How can we make production...
    Appropriate Techno... Construction Asia

  18. i-STED-KFRI Bamboo/Cane Entrepreneurship Development Programme

    Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) is a multidisciplinary team of experts conducting research on tropical forests and forestry. This Institute has contributed significantly to research in tropical forestry and biodiversity conservation over the past three decades of its existence. Founded in...
    Bamboo Cane Rattan India Asia

  19. Bamboos of China

    1/1/1987 This important book presents for the first time all of the diverse Chinese bamboos. In addition to descriptions of all the Chinese species presently known, the book includes chapters dealing with landscape uses, the role of bamboo in Chinese culture and cultural requirements.
    Ornamental Grasses China Bamboo

  20. The Book of Bamboo

    1/1/1984 A comprehensive guide to this remakable plant, its uses, and its history 2 copies 331 pages, illustrated
    Bamboo Bamboo Construction

  21. Building with Bamboo - the basics

    In India there is a saying that “after birth one cannot survive without bamboo”. The early human use of bamboo tools and technology may have preceded the usage of the Stone Age tools, but unlike stone, bamboo is perishable and no record of the use has been preserved. Bamboo is an extremely...
    Bamboo Construction

  22. Bamboo Preservation

    Preservation of bamboo means: • sound management in storage, and in cutting time: cut the bamboo in the season when the starch content is low; • attention to details such as keeping the bamboo dry: • protect the bamboo from splashing rainwater (build the roof with an over-hang), • allow the...
    Practical Action

  23. Bamboo Genera

    All bamboo genera (123) are listed here with their tribe and subtribe. They contain all the known bamboo species within their genus (click on the genus to see the corresponding species). Bamboo belongs to the grass family POACEAE, which is divided into 12 subfamilies. Among them the subfamily...
    Bamboo

  24. 11° Congreso Mundial del Bambú México

    14/8/2018 Únete a nosotros del 14 al 18 de agosto de 2018 para el 11 Congreso Mundial del Bambú. Este evento mundial tendrá lugar en la hermosa ciudad deXalapa, en el estado de Veracruz, en el hotel Gamma Xalapa Nubara. El anfitrión del 11º WBC esBambúes y Forestales de México. El objetivo es demostrar el...
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  25. Towards bamboo agroforestry development in Ghana: evaluation of crop performance, soil properties and economic benefit

    Abstract, ICRISAT, 2020 In the quest to promote bamboo agroforestry in the dry semi-deciduous forest zone of Ghana, we evaluated changes in soil properties, crop productivity and the economic potential of a bamboobased intercropping system. The intercropping system was established from 3-months...

  26. Bamboo Helps Make Concrete Both Stronger & More Sustainable

    According toFuture Cities Laboratories, steel is not irreplaceable. There’s a material alternative that grows in the tropical zone of our planet, an area that coincides closely with the developing world: bamboo.Bamboo belongs to the botanical family of grasses and is extremely resistant to...

  27. Bamboo Identification

    The emphasis of this site is mainly on woody bamboos of Asian origin, especially those from temperate areas, and their cultivation in Europe & the USA. The initial intention was to write a book, but a website seemed a much more flexible, useful and powerful alternative, which could adapt and...

  28. The Bamboos of Thailand - Native and Introduced Species (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) — An Annotated Compilation

    THE BAMBOOS OF THAILAND presents a comprehensive compilation of information on native and introduced species of bamboo (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) in Thailand. The first main chapter of the publication deals with native and naturalized bamboo species, and the second main chapter deals with introduced...
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  29. Gigantochloa apus - Tabashir Bamboo

    Edible portion:Shoots A bamboo. It is an erect plant and forms tillers. It grows 10-20 m tall. The young culms have dense hairs. These stems can be 3-15 cm across. The walls can be 1 cm thick. The internodes are 30-65 cm long. The angles of the leaf sheath is rounded on the upper section. The...
    Bamboo FPI Plant Information Tabashir Bamboo

  30. Guadua angustifolia - Guadua

    Edible portion:Shoots? A bamboo. It is a tropical plant. At ECHO Other names : Amisa, Ba-ki-tape, Cana guadua, Chhononofo cugu, Garipa, Guagua rayada, Huamma, Hueca, Ipa, Kapi tape, Kenku, Marona, Otate, Pakika, Peak, Puru puru. Tacuara, Tacuaruzu, Tanish, Tzajib, Wamak, Synonyms : Arundarbor...
    ECHO Plant Bamboo FPI Plant Information Tropical plants

  31. Bamboo Water Pipe

    Bamboo has many uses in our homes, such as for poles, gutters, furniture and mats. Yet not many farmers cultivate it and usually it just grows wild. Bamboo can also be used to make excellent low-cost water pipes 2000

  32. Phyllostachys nigra - Black Bamboo, Purple Bamboo

    Edible Portion: Shoots A large bamboo grass. It grows 1.5-3 m high and spreads 1.8-3 m wide. It can be 10-15 m tall and spread 6-15 m wide. It formsclumps. The canes arch over. The canes are green in the first year then turn mottled to almost black. The canes are hollow andcan be 3 cm thick. ...
    Phyllostachys nigra Black Bamboo Purple Bamboo Bamboo Starchy Staples Bamboo Sprout FPI Plant Information

  33. Towards Resilient Bamboo Forestry

    A Reference Guide for Improved Management of Clumping Bamboo for Timber Bamboo The primary aim of this manual is to provide the reader with basic information on how to improve the health of bamboo clumps and the interdependencies within prodominantly bamboo-based agroecosystems, in turn...