The contribution of ‘chitoumou’, the edible caterpillar cirina butyrospermi, to the food security of smallholder farmers in southwestern burkina faso... We found that caterpillars are an important source of food and income for households, significantly increasing the household consumption of animal protein and, with shea nuts, representing the main income source for the majority of women....
May make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. sustainability under siege: transport costs and corruption on west africa’s trade corridors 1... These data allow us to estimate the effects of transport and corruption costs across three export market sectors: onions, shea nuts, and cashews....
Design, fabrication and testing of shea nut shelling machine... Putting into consideration better shelling and efficient separation of shea nuts so as to encourage more utilization and processing of shea nuts and its products....
Evaluation of the effects of climate changes, gdp growth and cocoa yield and price on shea nut export in ghana... Likewise, the total shea nuts produced is depends on the availability of sunshine for drying the nuts....