DURHAM, N.H.— The shea tree is a vital social and economic crop that is best known for the popular product shea butter—a multimillion-dollar ingredient used in cosmetics, personal care products, ...

Training for stakeholders involved in the production, processing, packaging, marketing and export of shea nut has begun. The programme was inaugurated by the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and ...

Dr Andy Osei Okrah, Chief Executive Officer of the Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA), has urged stronger collaboration among stakeholders to safeguard and transform Ghana’s shea industry into a ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- University of Oregon anthropologists have pushed back the history of harvesting shea trees in West Africa by more than 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. Evidence for ...

PADER DISTRICT, Uganda — In northern Uganda’s Pader district, farmers are working to preserve agricultural landscapes that have fed their communities for generations. These shea parklands, where ...

With nuts scarce as the shea season draws to a close, buyer Souleymane Sangare's warehouses in Ivory Coast's northern city of Korhogo are empty. In a country where shea production is modest and ...

President John Dramani Mahama has donated 20,000 sets of protective equipment (PPE) to women shea nut collectors in northern Ghana, in a move hailed as both humanitarian and strategic for the ...

There is growing investment in processing facilities in Nigeria. This is expected to have an effect on the trade dynamics of shea products in West Africa. There is a general trend of moving from ...

The shea tree is best know as a source for a multimillion-dollar ingredient used in cosmetics, personal care products, pharmaceuticals and chocolate. But for hundreds of thousands of African families ...