A $54.5 MILLION shea landscape project aimed at boosting the production of the cash crop has been launched in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital. Dubbed “Shea landscape emission reductions project (GSLERP)”, the seven-year programme also seeks to mitigate the effect of climate change on the fragile ecosystem in the Northern-Savannah ecological zone. Under the project, 70 community nurseries would be raised and managed by 26 women cooperatives, while more than 1.75million shea and 480,000 other economic trees would be planted on 500,000 hectares of land. When successful, the project will help reduce 6.139 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in emissions and also improve on the livelihoods of more than 600,000 women in the Northern, North East, Savannah, Upper West and Upper East regions. It also seeks to promote sustainable land use, forest conservation and enhanced community-based resources management to stem the ongoing forest destruction. The project is being impleme...