Dear All,
The Summit on Bamboo & Rattan for the green Economy on Nov 5 will be broadcast live on the web. Please circulate the information below to your colleagues and partners.
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发送时间: 2014年10月31日 15:46
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主题: [bamboo-plantations] PRESIDENT OF ETHIOPIA TO OPEN BAMBOO AND RATTAN SUMMIT
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Jinhe
PRESIDENT OF ETHIOPIA TO OPEN BAMBOO AND RATTAN SUMMIT
October 30, 2014
Summit to share Ethiopia's bamboo sector success and promote Ethiopia's policy framework as a basis for green growth with bamboo
His Excellency President Mulatu Teshome of Ethiopia will open the INBAR – Ministry of Agriculture Summit on "Bamboo and Rattan in the Green Economy" in Addis Ababa on Wednesday 5th November. He will be joined by the Ethiopian State Ministers of Agriculture and Environment, senior representatives of FAO, UNEP and the EU, senior government representatives from Ghana, Cameroon and China, business leaders, policy experts and environmentalists, to help set an agenda for bamboo development in the years to come.
Ethiopia is at the vanguard of bamboo-based development in Africa. With over a million hectares of natural bamboo forests, the country is blessed with a huge bamboo resource base of which it is pioneering the use to protect the natural environment, grow livelihoods and develop a greener economy.
Although Ethiopia has only had a formal bamboo sector since 2012, earlier work by INBAR and other development partners and investors helped raise awareness of bamboo's potential, and pilot businesses have shown the way for development with bamboo. These days the sector attracts major investors who see bamboo not as potential, but as practice, with clear and growing international markets for bamboo as green products – and that will help develop rural and urban livelihoods as well. This rapid growth has been, in large part, due to the Government's implementation of its Short and Medium-Term Strategic Plan ofBamboo Development, part of its bamboo sector strategic framework, which has focused attention and investment in an unprecedented way.
The Summit is organized by INBAR and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of Ethiopia, and supported by:
· The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia
· Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development (DFATD), Embassy of Canada in Ethiopia
· GIZ-Sustainable Land Managament Programme (GIZ-SLMP)
· GIZ Development Partnerships with the Private Sector (GIZ – DPP)
· International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN-IFAD)
· Sustainable Land Management Program, Ministry of Agriculture (SLMP – MoA)
Summit location – Sheraton Hotel, Addis Ababa
Date – 5 November 2014
Time – 09.00 – 18.00
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