AllAfrica

Africa: Global Demand for Shea Butter Is Growing - but It's Not All Good News for the Women Who Collect the Nuts

Analysis - Shea butter has become a highly sought-after ingredient in cosmetics and food manufacturing worldwide. Since the ...
The Nation Newspaper

African women make $227million from Shea Butter processing – Okonjo Iweala

The Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, has highlighted the untapped potential of the Shea butter sector, despite African women having earned $227 million ...
Forbes India

Shea: The better butter

Shea butter, extracted from shea nuts, is used in the food and cosmetics industries Photographs: Jessica Sarkodie for The Body Shop It is winter in Mbanayili. The temperature is nudging 37 degrees ...
The Nation Newspaper

Shea butter’s demand rises

Nigeria’s shea butter industry is fast emerging as one of the country’s strongest non-oil sectors, transforming from a traditional cottage activity into a multi-billion-naira enterprise with global ...
insider.si.edu

Blisters for Butter: Reflecting on the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Gladys Sala Petey supervises production teams in Ghana for Shea Yeleen International. Before my volunteer experience at the Smithsonian Folklife ...

Global demand for shea butter is growing but it’s not all good news for the women who collect the nuts

Shea butter has become a highly sought-after ingredient in cosmetics and food manufacturing worldwide. Since the early 2000s its use as a substitute for cocoa butter has driven a dramatic rise in ...