More than three years ago, BASF teamed up with Cargill and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to promote sustainable coconut oil and improve the living conditions of coconut farmers in the Philippines. Today, they established the world’s first certified production of copra, the dried coconut flesh needed to process coconut oil. The project is located on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. “Together with our partners, we were able to show that it is possib...