Globally, more than three billion people still depend on food cooked over polluting open fires and inefficient stoves, using fuels such as wood, charcoal, coal, and kerosene. The toxic emissions from these cooking fires cause dramatic health, climate, economic, and environmental impacts, including some four million deaths each year. Women and girls, who are disproportionately affected, often spend hours each…
COGENT is the International Coconut Genetic Resources Network, a network with representatives of national institutions from 39 coconut producing countries, representing more than 98% of the global production. In this recent publication COGENT sets out its aims to strengthen international collaboration in conservation and use of coconut genetic resources; to promote improving coconut production on a sustainable basis, and to…
Making an Impact: This virgin coconut oil micro factory in West Sulawesi is generating powerful positive change for it's community. You can support by choosing to purchase a great natural product. Contact details are below. OUR VISION Produce the world's freshest and most natural "Extra" Virgin Coconut Oil Provide meaningful employment in our villages for men and women See our children enjoy a brighter future full of opportunity OUR VILLAGE We come from a small village in West Sulawesi, Indonesia. The economic situation is very dificult.…
Impact investment is necessary to enable productive use of the Coconut Wood [COCOWOOD] resource and contribute to better employment, and additional income for the coconut smallholders and overall economic development in coconut growing countries. The whole Asia-Pacific region has an estimated number of senile coconut trees of about 371.3 million or 111.4 million cubic meters of sawn coconut wood. This…
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More coconut growers are harvesting their fruit young for the water instead of allowing them to mature for coconut oil, creating a shortage in the coconut oil market. See Video Here
In late 2014, we set out to establish an impact investment in Indonesia. The overarching idea was to develop a robust and impactful project model that could engage at BOP (base of pyramid) and connect in with as many of the 17 SDG’s of the UNDP as possible. The investment model was conceived as consisting of a micro factory…
The coconut tree has been used by humans and their ancestors for at least 500,000 years. Of all the horticultural crops only coconut provides us with the resources to build a boat, sails and shelter, fill it with nutritious food, oil, milk, water, medicine, a high energy source of fuel to keep us warm, to cook with and a wide…
