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Cantu Beauty, a renowned brand for hair and skin care, is pleased to announce a new line of newly formulated products with organic ingredients.

Communities working to restore degraded forests in the northern savannah zone of Ghana. Ghana’s shea industry generates employment and...

Shea butter farming can drive living standards and business prospects in Ghana.  A project to replenish savannas also aims to erase red tape that blocks women from building farming businesses.  Our reporter talks to project sponsors and regulators to spell out hopes, metrics, and lessons flowing into and out of this effort.  (Courtesy Ghana Forestry Commission.) Can this soil nourish entrepreneurs as well as crops?  In Ghana, forests rich in gold, timber, and other products back a mainly ag...

Shea growers celebrate latest US green light Approval for a second shea ingredient could boost the West African economy by over $8.5 million a year. The new market could potentially boost West African shea exports to the US by an estimated 13,480 million tonnes annually and generate US $8,519,432 additional income per year for West African economies, according to the Global Shea Alliance. GSA President Simballa Sylla said: “ Our members are creating new export ma...