Impact Through Innovation
Supporting impact, scalability, and transferability in coconut businesses that deliver positive social and or environmental outcomes.
CKC is a for-profit inclusive business, managing and advising coconut value chains in Africa, South East Asia, South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia and India.
We are challenging the coconut status quo by shaping new value chain paradigms through impact investing and innovation and we achieve our outcomes by focusing on people.
“The world is on the brink of a revolution in how we solve society’s toughest problems. The force capable of driving this revolution is ‘Social Impact Investing’, which harnesses entrepreneurship, innovation and capital to power social improvements”
G8 Social Impact Taskforce, 2014
New Zealand
New Zealand is a highly progressive country with a small, well-educated, early-adopter marketplace with global trade relationships and a country where fairness and equality is highly valued.
New Zealand leads in adding more value-to-volume in agriculture by focusing its primary sector strengths to delivering more value-added through supporting development of high value, knowledge-intensive businesses.
The Heritage Foundation rated New Zealand the world’s third freest economy in its 2015 Index of Economic Freedom, just behind Hong Kong and Singapore. New Zealand came in third in Forbes’ ‘Best Country for Business’ report, (December 2014) just behind Denmark and Hong Kong.
New Zealand’s top 10 trading partners ($Millions)
Australia 24,327
China, People’s Republic of 19,796
European Union 19,619
United States of America 15,932
Japan 6,949
Singapore 4,302
Korea, Republic of 4,264
Malaysia 3,122
Thailand 3,011
Taiwan 1,977
Coconut
The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) is a multi function crop. More than 11 million farmers, mostly smallholders with low income, grow coconut palm in 90 countries. More than 80% of total world production comes from the Asia–Pacific countries.
Coconut has an enormous range of upstream and downstream interactions across food security, agriculture, social and environmental purposes, oleo chemicals, health and wellness and biomass energy.
A VALUABLE TRENDING UNIQUE PLANT BASED GLOBAL RESOURCE
COCONUT is a non-seasonal robust crop with opportunity for significant productivity improvements through re-planting and inter-cropping within an existing footprint in a period of increasing agri-demand and land use pressure.
In 2017 the coconut opportunity has totally metamorphosed, transforming from a low value nut into numerous high value products.
Coconut oil is currently the sweetheart of culinary, beauty, sports and nutrition circles. According to data from SPINS1, U.S. coconut oil sales reached more than $239 million in 2015, and sales climbed 31.3% compared to the previous year. The category-leading canola and soybean oils saw sales decrease by 5.7% and 9%, respectively, during the same period.