Mustafa Gerima, nicknamed "Mr Shea", wants Ugandans to understand the value of shea nuts A former biology teacher-turned-environmentalist is on a crusade in Uganda to save the once-flourishing trees ...

Shea butter, a natural fat extracted from the nuts of the African shea tree, is gaining attention as a do-it-all ingredient ...

The government is optimistic that the new alliance will revive the zeal to protect extinction-risked shea trees ...

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 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, pharmaceuticals and ...

<br>THE National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has warned residents of Otuke and Moroto counties in Lira district against cutting Shea trees and other indigenous species. THE National ...

Butyrospermum paradoxum (C.F. Gaertn.), Butyrospermum parkii (G. Don) Kotschy, catechin, epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin, epigallocatechin gallate ...

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 ...

A former biology teacher-turned-environmentalist is on a crusade in Uganda to save the once-flourishing trees from which shea butter is made - the cosmetic known as "women's gold". Mustafa Gerima ...

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 ...