This research assessed consumers’ attitudes towards sustainable and organic shea butter in Nigeria to provide recommendations that contribute to the financial sustainability of the Oke-Ogun Shea Butter of Oyo state, Nigeria.

Shea tree fruits is first processed as shea kernels for sale or further processed into butter. The butter has been used over time in food, cosmetic and industrial purposes. Processing shea as an individual usually comes with a risk of poor sales at the market due to inefficiencies. To avert this and …

Population ageing has been a focus of research since the 1960s (Michael et al. 2006), and it has become a domain of international discussions, debates and research throughout a myriad of disciplines including housing, urban planning and real estate (Buffel and Phillipson 2016, van Bronswijk 2015, Kort …

The crossroads of living in cities on the one hand and ageing of the population on the other is studied in an interdisciplinary field of research called urban ageing (van Hoof and Kazak 2018, van Hoof et al. 2018). People live longer and in better health than ever before in Europe. Despite all the positive …

In Northern Ghana, the shea nut tree is often referred to as the Northern “cocoa”, supposedly to signal the potential of Shea-nut as a weapon against poverty and to alleviate and empower women in terms of their financial status. This study was conducted to assess the contribution of shea butter extraction …

Het TEACCH-curriculum (Mesibov, Shea, & Schopler, 2004) beschrijft autisme als een andere cultuur, zoals het de manier bepaalt waarop mensen denken, voelen en zich gedragen. In dit onderzoek heb ik dit vertaald naar ‘de wereld van autisme’. Mensen met autisme hebben ‘vertaling’ nodig om te kunnen …