About Us
Restoring ecosystems, dignity, and rural livelihoods across the tropical belt requires long-term, community-driven solutions built on a restoration-based economy.
Bamboo Village Trust is a financial vehicle and Project Management Unit implementing the Bamboo Village Model. Building on the early vision of his environmental pioneer mother, Linda Garland — Arief Rabik established BVT in 2023 to continue the legacy through a landscape-level restoration framework that responds to the triple crisis of climate change, land degradation, and rural poverty.
HISTORY
Recognizing that restoration requires sustained coordination and financing at scale, Arief created BVT to mobilize resources across tropical belts and provide programmatic support to implementation partners. BVT establish bamboo villages, channeling both technical assistance and financial resources to communities leading restoration on the ground.
Through the Bamboo Village Initiative, BVT scales and operationalizes the Bamboo Village model across multiple geographies.
More than a restoration program, the Bamboo Village model integrates village-level empowerment, forest landscape management, and community-based governance to transform degraded and underutilized landscapes into productive restoration landscapes that generate long-term livelihoods.
Through this model, BVT assists and empowers rural communities to lead climate solutions in their landscapes while strengthening local economies.
Bamboo Village model enables communities to mobilize local resources, build institutional capacity, and restore degraded landscapes through bamboo-based agroforestry—laying the foundation for resilient, village-based economies.
Aligned with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and in collaboration with national and international partners, BVT provides technical assistance, governance systems, and programmatic support to accelerate community-driven restoration at scale.
BVT’s goal is to establish 200 bamboo villages across the tropical belt by 2030, demonstrating that community-managed restoration can deliver ecosystem recovery, economic opportunity, and climate resilience simultaneously.
PHILOSOPHY
Our Vision
Create a Restoration Economy on degraded land globally.
Our Mision
- Establish 200 Bamboo Villages along the Tropical Belt by 2030.
- Catalyze landscape-based climate solution while conserving standing tropical forest areas.
- Create social forestry assets as the backbone of the restoration economy.
- Increase access for women, youth, and marginalized groups to resources, capital, knowledge, technology and participation along the process, leadership and decision-making mechanisms.
Our Value
- Trust, Commitment and Integrity
We establish our relationships with all partners and collaborators on a foundation of trust, commitment and integrity.
- Data-Driven Method
We encourage a data-driven decision-making process.
- Adaptive Approach
We apply an adaptive mindset and methodology that embrace complexity and challenge as opportunities for learning and improvement.
- Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
We aim to enhance the access of women and marginalized groups to resources, involve them in all processes and decision-making mechanisms, and ensure they reap the full benefits of the bamboo village processes and results.
MEET OUR tEAM
At Bamboo Village Trust, our team is the heartbeat of our mission. Comprised of passionate professionals and dedicated specialists, we work together to promote bamboo-based social forestry and foster sustainable landscapes. Each member brings unique expertise and unwavering commitment to create lasting positive change in the communities we serve.