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 agrarian economy, but in recent times forest cover faces an annual loss of 2 percent as poachers, miners, farmers, and wildfires crowd into this landscape. A new project aims to reverse this forest loss, honor Ghana’s global climate commitments, and empower women in the production of shea butter among other activities.