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Ghana: Women in Ghana's Shea Butter Industry Plough On Despite Covid Woes
RFI, 24 December 2021
Women are sorting bad nuts from good nuts at the Sagnarigu shea processing facility in Ghana's Northern Region, a gated facility equipped with cooking stoves produced from mud with… Read more »
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Ghana: UNDP to Support Shea Butter Producers With Gh¢1m
Ghanaian Times, 26 October 2021
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has pledged an additional one million Ghana Cedis to some women shea butter producers in the Kumbungu District to acquire more… Read more »
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Ghana: From the Field - Adapting to Survive and Thrive in Ghana
UN News, 28 February 2021
In the West African country of Ghana, many people from farming backgrounds are forced to find new ways to survive, as droughts, floods and erratic weather patterns upend age-old… Read more »
Women in Ghana's Shea Butter Trade Go On Despite Covid-19 Woes
The implementation of Covid-19 protocols have adversely affected the businesses of women skilled in procducing shea butter, a fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree. Shea butter is used in the production of chocolate, yoghurt, candies, and baby food, in addition to skin cream.
Ninety percent of Ghana's shea butter exports go into the food industry, while the remaining 10 percent is used for skincare, involving women in local communities, according to Iddi Zakaria, national coordinator of Shea Network Ghana. "Shea oil is traded along three levels of the value chain... and then processed and sold to aggregators who then sell to large buyers, mostly in-country," says Zakaria.
In October, 2021, the United Nations Development Programme pledged an additional U.S.$162,000 to some women shea butter producers in the Kumbungu District to acquire more machinery to make their operations easier.
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Nothern Ghana is rich in natural resources, especially shea butter. VSO has partnered with SeKaf Ghana Ltd to turn this butter into gold. Read more »
This shea butter fruit is from larabanga in the Savana Region of Ghana. It has a sweet smell and save multi purpose, it can be eaten. It does well in the northern part of Ghana and in some some west Africa countries (file photo).
