The Savannah Fruits Company (SFC) is an organic shea butter exporter based in Ghana that works with organized women's groups. SFC believes business can produce social good and contribute to sustainability. SFC exports shea butter, works with over 5,000 women across 5 northern Ghanaian regions and the Western Region. It operates conventional and organic shea butter production models, with the organic groups being certified. SFC helps create livelihoods, supports sustainable wildlife management through partnerships with local groups, invests in restoring parklands to maintain shea supply, and promotes tree planting, firewood reduction, and energy efficient technologies like using shea cake waste to make briquettes.

1. Felix Basing
Operations Manager
felix@savannahfruits.com
SFC & Sus t ain abl e
Lan ds cape Man agemen t :
e xpe r ie n c e a n d pe r s pe c t ive s
f r o m a pr iva t e s e c t o r a c t o r

2. S FC
• The Savannah Fruits Company is a Ghanaian
registered company based in Tamale in the middle
of the savannah zone of northern Ghana. SFC was
founded in 2006 on the belief that business can,
and should, produce social good and contribute to
the sustainability of our planet’s ecosystem.
“Sustainable landscape management”

3. S FC
• SFC is bulk exporter of
traditional hand-crafted shea
butter
• SFC works with organized
women groups. (Registered,
group constitutions,
membership lists and
identified leadership)
• Operates in 5 Northern
regions; And in Western
Region, HA
• Production: – Organic and
Conventional
• Conventional with registered
women groups. Model: LPOs,
100% pre-finance, quality
checks, bonus.
• Organic production with
certified groups
• FFL certification (Fair-trade,
respect for actors, safety)

4. S u s t a in a b il it y & S FC
Shea is an important source of income from local and global trade. Shea butter is used in the
production of soaps, cosmetics, and foods like chocolate causing shea to become a globalized
commodity in recent decades. For Ghana and neighboring West African nations, international trade
in shea is becoming an important source of revenue to local communities and SFC is an integral
part of connecting
SFC creates new livelihood opportunities for women in rural communities through both the shea and
coconut value chain
- Creating alternative livelihoods keeps communities from using illegal poaching and deforestation
as income sources
- Sustainable wildlife management – partnering with local CREMAs
Investing in parkland management & restoration assures that the natural resources we need to
maintain our shea supply chain are not depleted and continue to flourish especially since shea is a
wild growing tree

5. 3 pr o n ged appr o ach

6. Tr e e
P l a n t in g

7. Fir ewo o d Us e Reduct io n

8. En e r g y Ef f ic ie n t Te c h n o l o g y

9. Sh ea cake So l ut io n s
SFC’s pl ace in t h e eco s ys t em

10. WASTE PIT; DRYING PLATFORMS

11. SHEA CAKE
BRIQUETTE
.
• Use as fuel at shea butter
processing centers
• Reduce use of fuel wood
• Reduce cost of production
and increase profit for
producers
• Reduce smoke at
processing centers

12. Thank You