TECO collects these products in Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. The main products are cashew nuts and shea nuts. Collection requires a strong organization with financing facilities, distribution of bags, quality control, warehousing and Export formalities from the loading port. Processing, packaging, and distribution take place in France. The Shea Project for Local Conservation and Development is an integrated, long-term effort to preserve the ecological integrity of savanna woodland in northern Uganda through reinforcement of the economic importance of the shea butter tree, Butyrospermum parkii, source of the food oil known as shea butter.
Women are responsible for much of the extraction process in the production of shea butter.
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