by HOMEf | Nov 20, 2018 | Hunger Politics
The African Union (AU) is paving the way for the entry of the latest and most controversial form of genetic engineering – gene drive technologies. In July 2018 the AU released a report endorsing the development of the technology as well as “enabling...
by HOMEf | Oct 16, 2018 | Hunger Politics
Health of Mother Earth Foundation hosted a Community Dialogue on Food and Farming Systems in Nigeria on September 21, 2018, at Ugbiyoko Community in Benin City with about a hundred farmers from various communities in Edo State participating. The Dialogue provided a...
by HOMEf | Sep 22, 2018 | Hunger Politics
Farmers Do Matter Small-scale or family farmers feed the world. This is an incontrovertible fact. This fact is unfortunately often overlooked. The willful rejection of the truth that small-scale farmers feed the world has persisted because accepting the truth would...
by HOMEf | Aug 15, 2018 | Hunger Politics
The Federal High Court of Justice, sitting in Abuja on the 15th August, struck out the Plaintiffs suit the GMO case with suit No: FHC/ABJ/C5/846/2017 due to technicalities. The Judge in delivering his judgment said that it was his opinion that although the plaintiffs...
by HOMEf | Jun 9, 2018 | Fossil Politics, Hunger Politics, Press Release
The themes for this year’s World Environment Day and World Ocean Day are centered on beating plastic pollution and thus serve as a wakeup call for all of us to take prompt actions to protect our environment and by extension our lives. Health of Mother Earth Foundation...
by HOMEf | Jun 1, 2018 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
It appears that in spite of the recent fracas between President Muhammadu Buhari and the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, there is one issue on which they agree-that Nigeria should adopt modern biotechnology as the solution to agricultural challenges. And they are...
