Bamboo Village Trust | Indonesia
A ground-breaking strategy
The Bamboo Village Initiative is an ambitious and ground-breaking strategy designed by Arief Rabik to address the world’s most critical issues — land degradation and climate change — whilst creating economic opportunities and social inclusion for rural communities.
Arief is a second-generation bamboo specialist, entrepreneur and scientist restoring deforested land and revolutionising the bamboo industry at a local-to-global scale. He is taking on a massive vision to build 10,000 bamboo villages around the world as a breakthrough solution to the world’s pressing issues such as land degradation, climate change, rural poverty, and gender inequality.
Arief is as capable and comfortable getting his hands dirty helping local producers on the ground as he is working with corporate leaders in the boardroom and politicians in national capitals to bargain for scalable policy and financial support to turn his vision into reality.
EBF was originally founded in 1993 by his legendary interior designer mother, Linda Garland, who saw bamboo's many positive qualities – flexibility, environmental friendliness, rapid and relatively easy propagation – as a solution to many problems in the world such as land degradation and climate change, and found her true calling in establishing bamboo as a viable replacement building material internationally.
