by HOMEf | Mar 4, 2021 | General, Hunger Politics, Ikike
A resilient food and farming system is highly dependent on the protection and preservation of biological diversity. While industrial agriculture and market based technologies destroy biodiversity, real farmers (small holder farmers) are faced with the challenge of...
by HOMEf | Feb 26, 2021 | Fossil Politics, General
The Polluters’ Judgment Roundtable was held at Oronto Douglas Conference Hall, HOMEF’s International Headquarters in Benin City on 23 February 2021 Over the last six decades the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been immersed in extensive environmental pollution from...
by HOMEf | Feb 26, 2021 | Fossil Politics, General
Welcome words by Nnimmo Bassey, Director, HOMEF, at the Polluters’ Judgements Roundtable held at Oronto Douglas Conference Hall, HOMEF Head Quarters, Benin City, Nigeria. When Chief Fidelis Oguru, Mr Alali Efanga, Chief Barizaa Dooh and Elder Friday Alfred Akpan filed...
by HOMEf | Feb 4, 2021 | Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics
by Eddy Wifa and Titilayo Adebola – On 29 January 2021, thirteen years after four Nigerian farmers and fisherfolks, Chief Fidelis Oguru, Mr Alali Efanga, Chief Barizaa Dooh and Elder Friday Alfred Akpan, instituted lawsuits in the...
by HOMEf | Jan 30, 2021 | General, Ikike, Report
According to the Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), flooding led to 68 deaths in the country in 2020 and “affected” 129,000 persons. Elsewhere in Africa, the UN Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) informed that more than...
by HOMEf | Jan 20, 2021 | Eco-Instigator, Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike
Welcome to the last edition of our Eco-Instigator for 2020. It has been a remarkable year in many ways. We have moved from the cover story in the first edition, in March, which linked the issue of hunger in Africa to climate change – to that of the second edition, in...
