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 Limitedkuki@greenpotenterprises.comCell: +254 721 593 211,