The Bamboo Village Trust (BVT) is an ambitious initiative that aims to restore degraded land and create sustainable livelihoods across the tropics and subtropics. It does this by pioneering Bamboo Villages: community-driven bamboo agroforestry projects which restore soils, ecosystems and rural economies. There are approximately 2.2 billion hectares of degraded lands around the world. In partnership with other organisations, BVT aims to create 200 Bamboo Villages around the world by 2029, including 100 in Indonesia and 100 in other landscapes across the equatorial belt.