Mianzi - going green with bamboo

Mianzi - going green with bamboo Mianzi is a goup of small-scale artisans, many of them women, working with bamboo in rural places around Tanzania. Go Green with Bamboo with Mianzi

Our vision is to promote bamboo and its enormous potential to fuel economic, social and environmental sustainable development in Tanzania. Bamboos are giant grasses belonging to the Gramineae family.They are the fatsest growing plants on earth, with recorded growth rates of more than one metre per day for some species. It is a potential renewable resource and an inexhaustible raw material, when pr

operly coordinated, may improve livelihoods of many people. Bamboo grows naturally on some parts of Tanzania, especially in the high rainfall forests and in lowland areas receiving good rainfall. Bamboo forests play a vital role in prevention of soil erosion and landslide, especially in ecologically sensitive regions where the forest cover has been indiscriminately destroyed or depleted by over-exploitation of timber and other forest resources. It is also important for construction, agriculture, clothing, housing, paper, pharmaceuticals, fuels and many other industries. Bamboo with its wood-like properties provides good substitutes for wood reducing demand on forest resources. The bamboo provides high protein feed for the goats and cattle kept by the communities. The bamboo provides a fuel for cooking and heating instead of coal or cutting indigenous trees. As a fast growing biomass source it opens up the opportunity for value added manufacture which offers a direct enterprise opportunity as an out-grower or participant in the manufacturing. Furthermore, provides job generation, livelihoods especially among women and in rural places.

Thanks to Wonder Worshop and everyone who supported Mianzi
06/12/2015

Thanks to Wonder Worshop and everyone who supported Mianzi

29/11/2015
Mianzi will be introducing its new products on the Christmas Market at Wonder Workshop. We hope to see you there!
27/11/2015

Mianzi will be introducing its new products on the Christmas Market at Wonder Workshop. We hope to see you there!

17/11/2015
Proud of introducing our new LOGO :-)
16/11/2015

Proud of introducing our new LOGO :-)

Bamboos are the fastest growing woody plants in the world, the crop can be replenished quickly. Furthermore, bamboo is s...
11/06/2015

Bamboos are the fastest growing woody plants in the world, the crop can be replenished quickly. Furthermore, bamboo is self-regenerating, which means that after the stalk has been cut, it rapidly regrows from the remaining rootstock. As long as bamboo is grown in its native habitat, its impact on local ecosystems is minimal compared to the destructive foresting practices of timber production.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/14/tanzania-illegal-logging-tree-species-extinction

Over 70% of wood harvested in forests is unaccounted for, causing huge losses of government revenue and driving some tree species to brink of local extinction

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