Increasingly erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts, episodes of intense precipitation linked to climate change reducing yields ...

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 ...

WORMERVEER, Netherlands, Sept. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Bunge Loders Croklaan (BLC), the specialty oils and fats business of Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG), officially announces the opening of its ...

Shea butter and its derivatives are growing with their attendant health benefits. Its extensive use in cosmetics, health products, confectionery and chocolate industry is assuming a new dimension with ...

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 ...

SHEA butter also known as karite butter or Ori is a cream-coloured fatty substance made from the nuts of karite trees that grow in the savannah regions of West and Central Africa. Shea butter is ...

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 ...

Anthropologists have pushed back the history of harvesting shea trees in West Africa by more than 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. Oil from the trees' nuts is used for cooking by local ...

- Launches Where Life Grows campaign to celebrate this as a milestone in its efforts to protect and advance the shea supply chain in West Africa WORMERVEER, Netherlands, Sept. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ...