(21 Apr 2025)
KENYA BAMBOO
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Kiambu, Kenya – 26 February 2025
1. Wide of landscape
2. Wide of bamboo trees
3. Various of bamboo trees
4. Various of farmer Njoki Wainaina harvesting bamboo
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Njoki Wainaina, farmer:
"There is a period of time when tea prices dropped very low and a lot of farmers found it very difficult to make ends meet and it coincided with the time when we learnt about the bamboo. So one of the things we have done is to start encouraging tea farmers that in the areas where they did not have tea, they can plant bamboo as an alternative source of income, because when tea prices go very low, at least they have something to fall back on."
6. Various of tea plantation
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Njoki Wainaina, farmer:
"Imagine that you planted one tree, maybe a cedar or blue gum. In five years, you have one tree and it is not even big enough to do anything with it. But with the bamboo, in five years, you will have more than twenty culms and every time you cut it back it comes out stronger, bigger and it grows even faster."
8. Various of Wainaina on her farm
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Njoki Wainaina, farmer:
"It has a very beautiful and very wide root system that helps to hold the soil, to trap the soil that is coming in the water but also to clean out the chemicals that are in the water. In this area, there is a lot of pollution of the rivers now, so the bamboos are acting as filters of the chemicals, the harmful chemicals that are in the water."
10. Various of bamboo trees
11. Pull focus on sign reading (English) ‘Back to basics tree nurseries’
12. Various of woman pruning in bamboo nursery
13. Various of women making products from bamboo
14. Various of products made from bamboo
15. Pan of environmentalist Aisha Karanja and women making bamboo products
16. Tilt up of Aisha Karanja
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Aisha Karanja, environmentalist:
"Nothing goes to waste when it comes to bamboo. You can conserve, you can use it for food, fodder for animals, you can use it for economic empowerment with the products we are making. So it is a holistic plant that really takes care of the environment and economic empowerment."
18. Various of harvested bamboo
19. Various of craftsmen making furniture from bamboo
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Nairobi, Kenya – 25 February 2025
20 Various of Nellie Oduor, Wood Scientist at Kenya Forest Research Institute, in her office
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Nellie Oduor, Wood Scientist at Kenya Forest Research Institute:
"Studies have shown that bamboo is able to sequester 30 percent more carbon dioxide from the air than broad leafed tree species. And this is helping the country, that if we continue to plant more bamboo then it will help us combat even our carbon footprint so that it sequesters more over the country."
22. Various of harvested bamboo
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Nellie Oduor, Wood Scientist at Kenya Forest Research Institute:
"This country has the target of 5.1 million hectares to restore degraded landscapes. Bamboo has also been given that space, that it can also be used for land restoration. Bamboo is a very good species for holding soil. So the river banks, protecting the river banks, degraded soils and landscapes, the gullies. You support those gullies so that we don’t have a lot of soil loss into those gullies."
24. Various of bamboo being processed into woven product at small factory
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Nellie Oduor, Wood Scientist Kenya Forest Research Institute:
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