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Shea butter helps empower women in rural Ivory Coast

Sasha Gankin
October 16, 2023

In Ivory Coast, tree bark has traditionally been used for medicine, but at huge cost to the trees. A female cooperative has given up the practice and switched to harvesting nuts from shea trees, earning a living by turning them into organic shea butter.

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