ABSTRACT
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is an approach to help smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change through the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services or a part of an overall adaptation strategy. The EbA framework develops linkages between climate change, natural resource management, and ecosystem services to promote ecosystems as a basis for adaptation and mitigation for changes in the local climate. Bamboo ecosystems provide a number of provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services, and all these can be considered as the natural assets in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation. The cultivation and management of bamboos in Asia are inextricably interwoven with human history so much that parts of Asia could be described as a “bamboo civilization”. Village bamboos are grown in small landholder farms and represent one of the intensively managed household management systems where family members participate in bamboo resource utilization and management.
