Sustainable Coconut and Coconut Oil Roundtable

To address production challenges that coconut buyers, processors and suppliers commonly share, in March 2019 USAID Green Invest Asia and Barry Callebaut co-organized in Kuala Lumpur an inaugural Sustainable Coconut and Coconut Oil Roundtable, where industry leaders agreed on broad areas of improvement for the coconut industry: farmers’ livelihoods and income; supply of productive coconut trees; farmers’ productivity; traceability; deforestation prevention, and; farmers’ access to technology.\n\n​\n\n​The inaugural Sustainable Coconut and Coconut Oil Roundtable, co-organized by Barry Callebaut and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Green Invest Asia, brought together over 80 buyers, processors and other actors actively involved in coconut supply chains to collaboratively find solutions and share investment approaches in establishing cost-effective sustainable coconut and coconut oil value chains.