Resources Tagged: Bamboo

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  1. Bamboo rediscovered: Growing and using non-invasive, clumping bamboo

    1997-01-01 Species selection, timber plantations, furniture, housing, food, musical instruments 95 pages, illustrated
    Bamboo

  2. Preserving Bamboo with Borates

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note #4 Working together with Thai Care, the children's ministry of the Rain Tree Foundation, Meribah Ram Pump is engaged in various community development projects in northern Thailand. A major focus is to make simple, sustainable technology, such as ram pumps and...
    Biological Control Pest Control Boric acid Borax Borates Bamboo preservation Bamboo Asia

  3. Bamboo for Construction

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    2018-05-17 Many plants deemed as invaluable for the smallholder farmer offer nutritious food for the family, fodder for animals, or timber for construction. Remarkably, bamboo offers all three of these assets from the same perennial plant! This Technical Note will focus on how to most effectively harvest,...
    Bamboo Construction Bamboo Bamboo preservation

  4. Bamboos

    1992-01-01 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-Utilization Gardening Bamboo

  5. Bamboo: the Gift of the Gods

    2003-01-01 This book discribes research on bamboo around the world. 553 pages, illustrated, photos
    Bamboo

  6. American bamboos

    Drawing on two decades of fieldwork in the United States and fifteen Latin American countries, the authors bring together current knowledge of the structure, ecology, human uses, conservation value, evolution, and diversity of the forty-one genera of American woody and herbaceous bamboos. They...
    Bamboo

  7. Vertical Soak Diffusion for Bamboo Preservation

    Bamboo culms are a natural material susceptible to insect and fungal attack. Without treatment products made from bamboo can be expected to last for only up to 3 years. There are many different techniques for curing and treating bamboo culms in order to prevent splitting,insect infection and...
    Bamboo Bamboo preservation

  8. Bamboos of China

    1987-01-01 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

  9. 15 Underutilized Crops for Improving the Lives of Smallholder Farm Families

    2018-11-14 Despite the incredible diversity of useful plants that exist, a small handful of crops feed the majority of the world and millions of people still suffer from malnutrition and poverty. This talk will discuss some often overlooked crops that have the potential to alleviate suffering through...
    Sunflowers Chayote Yam Bamboo Velvet Bean Jujube Carambola Starfruit Breadnut Breadfruit Jackfruit Papaya Cactus Mulberry Katuk Chaya Potatoes Underutilized Crops

  10. Bamboo Basics: Production, preservation, and construction

    2017-01-01 Bamboo Basics includes a printed copy of a Powerpoint on Bamboo Propagation along with harvesting, preservation and construction information. No page numbers, illustrated
    Bamboo ECHO info