Team: COPRA

Grand vision

• Increase the income of 3.5 million Filipino coconut farmers
• Filipino coconuts farmers should be able to earn a livable wage
• No Filipino coconuts farmers should live below $2/day 

Develop a conceptual framework that captures your vision of how your innovation and the ensemble/coalition you build around it will address the systemic challenges and improve the QoL for the target group.

Systematic challenge: Small-hold copra farmers do not have access to processing equipment or technology to produce higher value-added products.

Figure 1: Farmers harvest their coconuts, smoke/sun dry them, and sell them to the middleman broker, and the middleman broker sells it to the processing plants where it is then processed into higher value added products. In this process, the coconut farmers are unable to make significant income due to the middleman broker paying lower costs due to the consistency and quality of the Copra. 

Figure 2: Our innovation will reconfigure the extant system by enabling farmers to process their coconuts into higher value added products on their own, thus enabling them to take in more money than they did before.