In northern Uganda’s Pader district, a women-led cooperative is leading efforts to replant shea trees, restore deforested land and improve local livelihoods through the processing and sale of shea ...

As the growing demand for charcoal and firewood hastens the decline of shea trees in Ghana, communities living on the fringes of the country’s Mole National Park are planting fast-growing trees of ...

AGAGO, Uganda, June 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting on an anthill in northern Uganda, local clan leader Justine Tooyero watched wistfully over the few shea trees visible in the distance, ...

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 ...

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, ...

The northern part of the country – Upper East, Upper West, Northern, North East and Savannah Regions – is reeling from the impact of climate change, which is threatening the existence of shea trees.