Dika

These kernals can be eaten raw or roasted, but most are processed and pounded into Dika butter or compacted into bars or pressed to produce cooking oil.

Danielle Nierenberg: The Giving Trees: Five Trees You've Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger Danielle Nierenberg 2011

These kernals can be eaten raw or roasted, but most are processed and pounded into Dika butter or compacted into bars or pressed to produce cooking oil.

Danielle Nierenberg: The Giving Trees: Five Trees You've Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger Danielle Nierenberg 2011

Dika in Action: Each year, thousands of tons of "Dika nuts" are harvested throughout Western Africa, providing a critical income to millions of farmers and harvesters throughout West Africa.

Danielle Nierenberg: The Giving Trees: Five Trees You've Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger Danielle Nierenberg 2011

Best Way to Eat It: Resembling smooth walnuts, Dika seeds are cracked open by harvesters to collect the edible kernel contained inside.

Danielle Nierenberg: The Giving Trees: Five Trees You've Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger Danielle Nierenberg 2011

When forests are cleared in West Africa for firewood or for farmland, the Dika trees are, more often than not, left untouched.

Danielle Nierenberg: The Giving Trees: Five Trees You've Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger Danielle Nierenberg 2011

Dika in Action: Each year, thousands of tons of "Dika nuts" are harvested throughout Western Africa, providing a critical income to millions of farmers and harvesters throughout West Africa.

Danielle Nierenberg: The Giving Trees: Five Trees You've Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger Danielle Nierenberg 2011

(The fish is by Julien Canavezes, Mr. T is by Enkel Dika, and the astronaut band is by Forent Bocognani.)

$10 t-shirt sale at Threadless 2010

Best Way to Eat It: Resembling smooth walnuts, Dika seeds are cracked open by harvesters to collect the edible kernel contained inside.

Danielle Nierenberg: The Giving Trees: Five Trees You've Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger Danielle Nierenberg 2011

When forests are cleared in West Africa for firewood or for farmland, the Dika trees are, more often than not, left untouched.

Danielle Nierenberg: The Giving Trees: Five Trees You've Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger Danielle Nierenberg 2011

Dika says officials who maintain the new visa system is working well are “totally out of touch with reality.”

Flood of Zimbabwean Permit Applications Strains South African System 2010