Bamboo value chain can be developed and scaled up to support climate action, create green jobs, resilient businesses, and financial health, especially for the region's rural communities.

STARTUP WODD PH uses bamboo to make sunglasses in line with Quezon City’s push to cut plastic waste. It also helps Filipino farmers in Cebu and Davao, where it gets the raw materials to make wood and ...

A Bamboo Museum will be constructed at University of Eastern Philippines (UEP) here. UEP President Cherry Ibanez Ultra told The Manila Times that this is the first museum in the country dedicated to ...

Titled “Bamboo Liquor Ph: Local Innovation for Quality Use of Organic Pesticide Resource in the Philippines,” the project is a collaboration with the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Plant ...

Coping with the fast-growing demand in the world market, producers are bullish on ramping production of other raw materials for fiber production, an official said on Thursday. Lionel Abella, ...

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) launched a creative industry summit in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte on Monday to foster local entrepreneurship and creative growth, with a focus on bamboo’s ...

In an increasingly warming world, Lopez adds that the new-technology bamboo houses cool faster at night than concrete structures. Base Bahay has built 1,530 of those in the Philippines ...

Plus, bamboo is a grass, so when the stem is harvested ... and a bridge and pavilion in the Philippines. "In the countries that are using it, it's extremely cheap and extremely abundant, and ...

The government has distributed over P70 million worth of livelihood and financial assistance to residents affected by Typhoon ...

In the years ahead, DOST will work closely with stakeholders to develop local unified bamboo industry plans aligned with the Philippine Bamboo Industry Roadmap. These plans will focus on data ...

DTI helped establish in 2022 the Philippine Bamboo Industry Development Council to prepare a road map that aims to revolutionise the industry in the country, and find strategies to elevate its ...

Spain introduced Christianity to the Philippines in 1565 with the arrival of Miguel Lopez ... blessings on the irrice seed before planting or in the placement of a bamboo cross at the comer of a rice ...