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Green-fingered Burkinabe women protect shea "gold"

Published on 15 May 2015
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Agroforestry Centre are helping local government and communities improve degraded forest by planting native species in Cassou village, Burkina Faso. Michael Balinga, a landscape ecologist with CIFOR, said around 450 hectares (1,112 acres) of the Cassou forest have become highly degraded due to demand for farm land and fuel wood.
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