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🇧🇼 From Indigenous Trees to Industries, Jobs, Exports and Generational Wealth

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  INDUSTRIALISATION. I am working on the design of a Botswana Indigenous Bio-Industry —a structured national economic system through which Botswana's indigenous trees, fruits, nuts, seeds, oils, fibres, medicinal plants and other renewable biological resources can become the raw materials for new industries owned by, processed in and economically benefiting Botswana and its people. Botswana's next great industrial resource may already be growing around us. For generations, Africa has looked at indigenous trees mainly through the lenses of traditional food, medicine, culture, conservation, household survival and subsistence livelihoods . These roles remain important. But I believe Botswana must now add another dimension: The proposition is not simply to ask: What indigenous products can Botswana sell? We must ask a much larger question: WHAT INDUSTRIES CAN BOTSWANA BUILD FROM THE BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES IT ALREADY POSSESSES? That is a completely different development question. Our ...
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CHINA’S BIO-INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE: BAMBOO, CACTUS AND ALOE VERA

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1. BAMBOO: CHINA HAS TURNED A PLANT INTO A RMB 520 BILLION INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY Bamboo is probably one of the clearest demonstrations of what we mean when we say that agriculture can become manufacturing . According to China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration, China now has nearly 8 million hectares of bamboo forest , produces approximately 150 million tonnes of bamboo annually , has more than 10,000 bamboo-processing enterprises , supports over 29 million people throughout the industrial chain , and has developed more than 15,000 types of bamboo products . Annual bamboo-industry output value has exceeded RMB 520 billion , approximately US$74 billion. ( Government of China ) That is no longer simply forestry. It is an industrial platform. China has connected bamboo to construction, furniture, flooring, pulp and paper, packaging, food, tableware, textiles, composite materials, household goods, crafts, tourism, biomass energy and increasingly bamboo substitutes ...
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