Mark Sultan Gersava
Founder and Chief Executive Farmer, Bambuhay
Mark Sultan is Founder and Chief Executive Farmer at Bambuhay, a social enterprise focusing on eco-friendly innovations which simultaneously empower marginalised communities. They partner with former slash and burn farmers, women, people with disabilities, unemployed youth and Indigenous communities to provide innovative, natural lifestyle products. The organisation estimates they have eliminated 424,000 pounds of plastic, mitigated 5.6 million pounds of CO2, and reforested 542 hectares of forest. Bambuhay’s 2030 goal is to reforest one million hectares of deforested land, and plant one billion bamboo trees.