May 3, 2012 by Luigi Guarino

Shea butter producers go digital

Shea butter, made by cooperative Nununa in Burkina Faso

Burkinabe women seperating shea nuts for processing

Women crushing shea manually in Burkina Faso

Burkinabe Women in Bieha mixing shea paste by hand

New buildings in Burkina Faso are being completed for the shea transformation chain

Shea butter production is now automatized

The shea oils are seperated in large basins

Shea butter production is facilitated by automatization process

Burkinabe producers will create a shea database and online webshop to support sales

Women in Burkina Faso, as main producers of shea butter, will be benefited the most by the project

Automatization has facilitated the grinding process of shea nuts in Burkina Faso

Shea producers in Leo, Burkina Faso go Digital, a set by IICD on Flickr.

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2. And another one, from the MIT Technology Review of all places.
3. Menawhile, there’s only one reference to dietary diversity in the World Bank’s investment framework for nutrition.
4. Maybe you have to quantify that diversity before you can save it? Now where have I heard that before?
5. Meanwhile, Europe reports on biodiversity-friendly farming practices. Does that include the biodiversity of the actual crops? Perhaps surprisingly, yes!
6. You want biodiversity-friendly farming practices? Talk to Indigenous people. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has launched an e-consultation on “Preserving, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems.”
7. There’s diversity in asparagus too.
8. Genebanks can help with those biodiversity-friendly practices, diverse diets and rops and Indigenous practices.
9. Even big international genebanks.
10. Even the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
11. But some are in trouble.
12. Though others are coming back.
Published on November 7, 2024