A proposal by a Japanese woman to introduce a fair trade policy for exporting coconut oil from a small Indonesian island has changed the lives of islanders, prompting them to abandon blast fishing that destroys the surrounding ecosystem.Ai Fujiwara, 30, was amazed by the quality of the coconut oil made in Kapoposang Island when she visited Sulawesi Island as an interpreter in the summer of 2014, as the oil made her dry skin smooth.She also learned that the small island, six hours west of Sulawesi by boat, had virtually no source of income other than from marine produce caught using blast fi…READ FULL ARTICLE
