Toward an Integrated Bamboo Agribusiness Agenda in Asia: Gaps in Research, Development Interventions, and Policy Frameworks

Purpose – The study characterized and assessed gaps in bamboo agribusiness research, development interventions and policy frameworks across 12 Asian countries. Design/Methodology/Approach – Using systematic literature review of protocols, content, frequency distributions, co-occurrence patterns and regional/temporal analyses, 111 research studies were analyzed from an original pool of 4433 studies from 2015-2025. Findings – The results showed that prominent gaps fall under Production-Livelihood-Environment, particularly in South and Southeast Asia while Enterprise-Markets-Value Chains gaps were more evident in East Asia. Institutional and policy-related gaps under the Institutions-Policy-Data-Capacity cluster, remain underexplored across all subregions. At the country level, remarkable divergence exists between the focus of country-specific studies and broader Asia-level studies. Research Implications – Implications point toward moving beyond fragmented, production-centric studies to include more research in other dimensions of agribusiness in relation to enterprise, market and value chain systems and support institutions necessitating a synchronized approach and responsive governance at the country, subregion and regional levels.