Alicia is a writer, photographer, and social entrepreneur specializing in sustainable travel, wildlife and nature conservation, and environmentally friendly agriculture and eating. She holds an M.S.

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the seeming bounty of shea butter products in markets and on beauty counters globally, little known threats to shea trees are looming. In April, the Vice President of Ghana declared the threat ...

A shea nut processing factory in Lira City is on the verge of collapse due to the high rate at which shea trees are being depleted. Sadly, efforts by the National Environment Management Authority ...

Under the shade of a giant shea butter tree, Josephine Adata sits in the company of 15 other women, waiting for customers The 35-year-old mother of six and others from Ullepi sub-county sit by the ...

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 ...

(Clockwise from left) The Mbanayili Health Centre women in Mbanayili dance beneath kapok trees shea kernels being crushed by a machine to make butter the churning of shea paste to extract butter women ...

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 ...