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October 31, 2022 (BANGKOK) – An industry-led steering committee has selected BSR, a sustainable business network and consultancy, to serve as secretariat of a coconut platform comprised of signatories of the Sustainable Coconut Charter and participants in the Sustainable Coconut Roundtables. [...]

October 7, 2021 (BANGKOK) – Less than one year after the landmark launch of the Sustainable Coconut Charter, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Green Invest Asia, [...]

Pre-issuance certification under Climate Bonds Standard secured August 30, 2021 (PALAWAN) – Lionheart Farms (Philippines) Corporation, a sustainable coconut farm in Palawan, Philippines, received [...]

Over one year after an inaugural sustainable coconut roundtable was held in Malaysia, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and global cacao corporate, Barry Callebaut, reconvened coconut  buyers via webinar on June 30 to continue efforts to prevent a global coconut shortfall through a sustainable sourcing charter.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Green Invest Asia project recently co-organized with Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of chocolate and cocoa, a half-day coconut networking event in Bangkok to advance pre-competitive collaboration on sustainable coconut supply chains and drafting of a “sustainable coconut charter” that emulates other commodities’ sustainability agreements.

April 4, 2022 (BANGKOK) – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Green Invest Asia project, along with GIZ and Barry Callebaut convened the sixth Sustainable Coconut [...]

September 21, 2021 (BANGKOK) – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Green Invest Asia program along with global cacao manufacturer Barry Callebaut, and the German [...]

March 2, 2021 (BANGKOK) –  With support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Green Invest Asia project, a U.S. organic coconut water company, Harmless Harvest, is [...]

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Green Invest Asia project, has launched a study on cacao-coconut intercropping that will help increase  farmers’  income and lower carbon emissions in the southern Philippines.

Coconut consumption continues to grow globally, increasing the nut’s profile as a safe food alternative, even reaching superfood status in some circles. According to the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community, an inter-governmental trade group, exports of coconut water from the Philippines almost doubled from 647,000 liters in 2008 to 1.8 million liters in 2010, before multiplying to 61 million liters in 2015.