A new report has projected the growth of the global shea butter market to reach $2.4 billion by 2030, largely driven by consumer demand for plant-based ingredients in the cosmetic industry. The report ...

The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Eric Opoku, has announced two major initiatives aimed at boosting ...

Here’s how one family cracked the nut on sourcing and exporting shea butter. Two months ago, Naa-Sakle Akuete, a Harvard Business School graduate and Wall Street analyst, launched a body cream product ...

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 ...

WORMERVEER, THE NETHERLANDS — Bunge Loders Croklaan (BLC), the specialty oils and fats business of Bunge Ltd., has opened a new shea butter processing plant in Tema, Ghana. In connection with the ...

Some 90 women, skilled in processing and trading shea from across the Tamale area, work here to process the nuts from the Africa shea tree. But business suffered when clients stopped going to the ...

What is the price of having smooth skin? Some people spend a lot of money on beauty products which contain shea butter, but not much of that trickles down to the widows of a small farming community in ...

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 an accompanying ...