Women Role, Women Issues, Women Poverty: Fair Trade Coconut Oil
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 Many tropical coastal communities are the custodians of unique endangered cultures, languages, reefs and rainforests. The coconut is the most sustainable agricultural resource of these communities.
DME bypasses arduous copra-making and provides rural people with meaningful employment, a regular income and enhanced living standards.
So, in buying this oil, you are not just getting a premium product but also supporting the livelihood of many island people and their environments.
The DME process depends upon simple, easily learned skills, rather than sophisticated equipment. Families really enjoy working together on DME oil production, whereas they typically describe the making of copra as a form of slavery.
DME coconut oil gives regular meaningful employment to teams of 3 to 5 women and/or men of all ages. A team can work on the process more-or-less whenever it suits them — whether it be 2 hours a day on 2 days per week or 10 hours a day for 6 days a week — it could even be operated on a shift basis all day and all night. Production can take place all year round and in virtually any weather.
It gives direct local employment in rural areas in nut collection and oil production, and it has multiplier income- and employment-effects. Where the oil is packaged locally, or used as an input by local cosmetic, soap and detergent producers, there is significant value added. Also, the residue goes for baking and livestock.
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