The Coconut Knowledge Center is an independent not-for-profit platform, dedicated to advancing the global coconut sector.

For more than two decades our CKC Network has explored how the coconut palm – one of the world’s most versatile perennial crops – can be repositioned, not simply as a commodity, but as a platform crop capable of supporting new forms of agricultural, industrial and regenerative value creation.

11 Million

Small-scale farmers grow coconut

90

Countries grow coconut

80%

Coconut production is from Asia-Pasific

The coconut palm is present across more than 90 tropical countries, supporting the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers and supplying a growing range of global industries.

Yet despite its importance, the coconut sector remains structurally underdeveloped.

Plantations are aging, productivity remains low, and supply chains are fragmented.

The Coconut Knowledge Center was established to help reframe how the sector is understood, particularly by global capital, and how it might evolve.

The Coconut
Platform Crop

Coconut is one of the few agricultural systems capable of generating multiple parallel value streams:

Food and nutrition

Fibre and biomaterials

Bioenergy

Carbon and soil regeneration

Agroforestry ecosystems

Coconut sugar

Coconut timber

Understanding coconut through this platform crop lens allows the sector to move toward an integrated, regenerative development model.

What CKC Does

The Coconut Knowledge Center operates as a sector intelligence and strategic platform, working with stakeholders across the coconut ecosystem to explore: