History
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.
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.