The Hershey Co. and IOI Loders Croklaan, a global shea butter supplier, will fund the construction of three warehouses in Northern Ghana, which will improve incomes for women shea farmers in that area.
The Hershey/IOI Loders Croklaan partnership will enable StarShea, a social business that commercializes shea butter supplied by its network of rural Ghanaian women, to construct the warehouses, thereby allowing the women’s cooperative to store shea nuts throughout the season. The move will help increase the women’s profit for their shea crop.