"This situation is negatively affecting pickers, processors and local businesses, many of which are women-led." Farmers sound ...

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Ghana produces over 150,000 metric tonnes of shea nuts annually. Of this quantity, only about 30-40 percent is processed into ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Women in Ghana have been turning shea nuts into butter for centuries. People across Africa have used it for skin and hair care, food, and medicine for at least 700 ...

For women in Ghana, shea butter isn’t just a powerful multi-use ingredient – it’s a vital source of economic independence. Stylist’s beauty editor Lucy Partington reports from Tamale.

Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Ghana is one of the largest exporters of shea nuts and shea butter in the world, and women traditionally play a central role in every part ...

Sabrina Dhowre Elba in Ghana with World Vision. The entrepreneur visited several cooperative groups and spoke directly with ...

Climate change is threatening the existence of shea trees in the country’s northern parts – the Upper East, Upper West, ...

She explained that Ghana loses up to 300% of its potential value by exporting raw shea instead of processing it locally into shea butter and other products. “The way raw nuts are harvested ...

A former biology teacher-turned-environmentalist is on a crusade in Uganda to save the once-flourishing trees from which shea butter is made - the cosmetic known as "women's gold". Mustafa Gerima ...