The IoFE and the Andhra Forest Department have partnered to develop a collaborative initiative focused on creating a sustainable forest economy by securing tenure in bamboo forest landscapes. The goal of this partnership is to establish a bamboo economy through a multi-stakeholder approach.
IoFE will facilitate the acquisition of tenure rights for local communities, integrate technology for economies of scale in aggregation, and establish marketing linkages for the bamboo economy. We have completed an initial bamboo inventory across Andhra Pradesh and will soon launch a pilot program in a selected district.
Alluri Sitarama Raju (ASR)
In collaboration with the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department, we conducted a field survey to inventory bamboo resources, gathering gold-standard ground-truthing data for a state-wide inventory. The ASR district was chosen as the pilot area to demonstrate a sustainable bamboo economy based on community tenure which will be applied to other regions and SFPs within the state.
