Hunger Politics
This track asks the basic question: why are people hungry? HOMEF works in the paradigm of food sovereignty and exposes the false premises of food aid and its exploitative and contaminating linkages.
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No Fisheries Policies Without Fishers
Nigeria has a coastline of about 853km with Lagos, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, and Cross River as littoral states. 28 out of the 36 states in Nigeria are navigable by the connecting inland waters that stretches about 10,000km – encircling whole...
Pesticides and Human Rights
Background The insurgence of chemical pesticides has been accompanied by growing concerns about the impacts of these products on humans, biodiversity, and the environment. In recent months, successful litigation across the globe against pesticide manufacturers has...
Nigerian Indigenous Food
There are several issues today exerting pressure on the food system in Nigeria and in Africa at large. These issues range from wars to inflation, biodiversity loss, climate change, industrialization, and colonialism. These issues, now more than ever, call for a...
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Featured Publication
Dead Fish is not Manna
Fish has both economic and nutritional importance to man and society. This publication aims to bring to the forefront issues that beg attention in the fisheries sector. It discusses pandemic impacts on fisheries, captures the peculiarities and challenges of the fishing industry in Nigeria, and raises our consciousness on happenings around the Niger Delta coastline.
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