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Thomas H. Shea
No full textThis lecture features 2013 Entrepreneur Hall of Fame inductee Thomas H. Shea
Improving the Quality of Women’s Gold in Mali, West Africa: The Case of Shea
No full textThe collection, primary processing, and subsequent sale of shea-based products make an important contribution to rural women’s cash income in many of Mali’s shea producing areas. Internationally, shea has recently become popular in high-valued cosmetics thanks to its therapeutic properties— a deviation away from its historic use as a cheap cocoa-butter substitute. For these reasons, international development actors have targeted the Malian shea value chain as part of their private-sector-development and rural-poverty-alleviation programs and strategies. Information asymmetry in the production and marketing of shea has led to a “Market for Lemons” scenario much like that described by Akerlof (1970), thereby compromising the subsector’s potential to serve as a powerful source of rural income growth and poverty alleviation. A combination of tools is used to describe the Malian shea value chain, including the “Structure, Conduct, Performance” framework borrowed from the industrial organization literature and the “Subsector Studies” approach popular in current export-led international development strategies. Analogies from subsectors historically plagued by adverse selection and moral hazard are used to identify potential leverage points and intervention strategies for stakeholders to help improve shea quality and returns to primary producers. The analysis suggests the Malian government has the potential to play an important role in this process as a coordinating body and channel captain, with donors and private enterprises playing complementary roles.Information asymmetry, karité, Mali, rural development, shea, women’s income, Agribusiness, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, International Development, Marketing, Q13, Q23, L15, L24, 013, O17,
Anthony Shea Interview
No full textMAJ Anthony Shea served in the Air Force from 1985-1994 as a security forces specialist, was an officer with the chief computer support section, wide area network program manager, internet protocol engineer, chief military telephone command and control, and Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies for Air Force ROTC, Virginia Military Institute. This interview covers his Air Force career from 1985 - 200
Shea butter: connecting rural Burkinabè women to international markets through fair trade
No full textProcessed by rural West African women and desired by wealthy Northern consumers of natural beauty products, shea butter seems a prime candidate for fair trade, yet to date there has been little study of the industry. This article analyses the opportunities and constraints of the development of fair-trade exports of shea butter from Burkina Faso, taking into account the context in which shea is produced and sold locally and internationally, the concept of fair trade, and the impact of gender relations on shea production. Although a definitive positive or negative determination cannot be made, given the complex and divergent factors affecting the potential international market and the production process, the author finds that the development of the fair-trade shea butter industry in Burkina Faso has great potential. However, such development must occur with restraint and consideration of possible challenges and limitations, in order to remain sustainable and viable for rural female producers.This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p
William H. Standen & Michael L. Shea "boiling up" at Chamigny, August 1918
No full textPhotograph from Gus Nelson's service with the 102nd Machine Gun Battalion, 26th U.S. Infantry Division; complete caption by Nelson reads: "William H. Standen & Michael L. Shea 'boiling up' at Chamigny, Aug 1918. Bacon cans of the type here used were much in demand for this purpose. "Title from a caption by Gus Nelson. Gustaf "Gus" Nelson entered Norwich University as a member of the Class of 1919; he left school to serve in World War I and served with the 102nd Machine Gun Battalion of the Yankee Division. After the war, he returned to Norwich University and graduated in 1924
William H. Standen & Michael L. Shea "boiling up" at Chamigny, August 1918
No full textPhotograph from Gus Nelson's service with the 102nd Machine Gun Battalion, 26th U.S. Infantry Division; title from cropped and enlarged version (gnelson-ph-040) reads: "William H. Standen & Michael L. Shea 'boiling up' at Chamigny, Aug 1918. Bacon cans of the type here used were much in demand for this purpose."Gustaf "Gus" Nelson entered Norwich University as a member of the Class of 1919; he left school to serve in World War I and served with the 102nd Machine Gun Battalion of the Yankee Division. After the war, he returned to Norwich University and graduated in 1924
The Way of Shea: Developing Permaculture Systems within the Shea Butter Supply Chain in Ghana
No full textThe aim of this work is to analyze the traditional shea butter production process and the supply chain of shea in the rural communities that produce it in the Upper West region of Ghana so as to improve these activities through developing permaculture systems and collective work in Ghana and throughout the African diaspora. This thesis focuses on the traditional shea butter process, existing permaculture systems within the process, and supply chain to market. The value of cooperatives and connecting the African Diaspora to shea for a greater social impact is also discussed. The author concludes with suggestions for opportunities to further develop a permaculture system within the shea butter supply chain through improved environmental policy, greater community cooperation, infrastructural developments, and private and public entities creating methods for greater collective impact.</p
Ele Agbe in search of a new light in Ghana's shea sector
No full textEle Agbe is a Ghanaian phrase meaning “God is alive.” Founded as a small and medium enterprise (SME), in Ghana in 1996, Ele Agbe Company is currently a dynamic business operating in the downstream shea export sector. Demand for shea is increasing for skin and hair products on the foreign market. Ele Agbe’s artisans use traditional Ghanaian tools and methods, and the highest quality materials available, including unique scents. The protected knowledge build up of unique scents in its shea product mix has given Ele Agbe its trade secret. At Ele Agbe, artisans pass on their skills to younger generations, conducting workshops for school groups and accepting apprentices from throughout Ghana. The business is confronted with challenges partly as a result of non-existent working policy for shea and breaks or gaps in the shea supply chain preventing it from achieving full potential. The company needs to consider how to improve on its’ firm and business networks given its internal and external environment in order to expand.Values Technology and InnovationTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Extension of the Drasin-Shea-Jordan theorem
No full textPassing from regular variation of a function f to regular variation of its integral transform k*f of Mellin-convolution form with kernel k is an Abelian problem; its converse, under suitable Tauberian conditions, is a Tauberian one. In either case, one has a comparison statement that the ratio of f and k*f tends to a constant at infinity. Passing from a comparison statement to a regular-variation statement is a Mercerian problem. The prototype results here are the Drasin-Shea theorem (for non-negative k) and Jordan's theorem (for k which may change sign). We free Jordan's theorem from its non-essential technical conditions which reduce its applicability. Our proof is simpler than the counter-parts of the previous results and does not even use the Pólya Peak Theorem which has been so essential before. The usefulness of the extension is highlighted by an application to Hankel transforms
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