I actually re-started that game, because no matter what I did, my villagers were always on the verge of starving to death. Oddly enough, when I restarted the first time, the game didn't reset my coconut levels. Instead of going back up to 1500, the levels stayed where they had been at 1180. I wound up having to delete the game entirely to start over.

Oh, well. Thru careful supervision, I have gotten everyone alive & well past the crucial point, and now I have happy villagers running around, doing all sorts of things instead of what I want them to be doing. Kind of like real life.