
Coconut Shortage and Rising Prices: What’s Behind the Market Challenges?
The global coconut market is facing significant supply constraints, leading to rising prices and ongoing uncertainty in 2025. A combination of weather impacts, rising global demand, and export pressures has disrupted supply chains, making it harder f…

Kokonut Pacific Leadership Changes
Kokonut Pacific is entering a new chapter of leadership while continuing to honour its rich history and mission.
After many years of dedicated service, Richard Etherington has stepped aside as Managing Director to focus on his passion for sustainable…

Beauty Benefits of Extra Virgin Coconut Oil Soap
You've probably heard a lot about the wonders of coconut and all the health benefits of consuming coconut oil. But did you know about all the beauty benefits of coconut oil soap?
Using a soap containing coconut oil is a convenient way to treat y…

From Mechanic to business magnate
When Jimmy Kuto started his mechanical repair business he literally had to carve his land from the jungle of Asimana – 50 km south of Malaita’s largest town Auki, in the Solomon Islands. He started with nothing. The country was in the middle of inter…

How to add lean muscle with MCT oil.
MCT oil has over the last 10 years gained huge popularity with people looking to build muscle and stay lean. It has many reported benefits, including increasing energy, maintaining a full feeling longer, increasing metabolism, aiding recovery and los…

The bumpy road to empowerment
If you take a long and uncomfortable journey on the back of a one tonne flat-bed truck, from Auki, the capital of Malaita, Solomon Islands, on extremely bumpy dirt roads, you will find the tiny village of Hauhul and Rev Micha Raoiasi and his DME C…

Changing lives through preserving cultures
Many South Pacific cultures face overwhelming challenges, from climate change, rapid population growth, logging and mining without good regulation, poor government, and lack of infrastructure. It’s a long and depressing list, but Niulife is helpin…

Going Loco for Cocominos!
What are Cocominos? Our
organic Cocomino sauces are handmade from the blossom nectar of freshly
picked coconuts. The nectar is then combined with sea salt, fermented and
barrel-aged in order to form a brown liquid with a deep sweet-savoury flavour…
The Opportunity to Get it Right - Solar Powering the Solomon Islands
What if we could go back and leapfrog the industrial era? Go straight from hunter-gatherers, agrarian, pre-industrial societies to green, sustainable, organic, technologically savvy, medically advanced and civilized, an interconnected, socially aw…

The Kokonut Kindergarten
Every week, the parents of children at a small kindergarten in Fiukwai, Malaita, Solomon Islands have to pay fees to keep their children in the school.But even though the children come from low-income families, their parents have no problem paying fo…
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