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HOMEF and Partners Organise a Presidential Town Hall on Climate Change and Environmental Concerns
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the town hall is a solid attempt to provide a platform for Nigeria's presidential candidates to discuss their plans and strategies for addressing critical environmental and climate challenges facing the country. Date: 3...
Political Ecology – Liberating the Sacrificial Zones
The last session of the School of Ecology (SoE), for the year 2022, focused on the concept and issues around Political Ecology. The SoE, which was virtual, allowed for the contestation of ideas while discerning the points of convergence and divergence...
Right Livelihood Lecture 2022
The Right Livelihood College Lecture 2022 was co-hosted by Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and the University of Port Harcourt on 30 November 2022, at the faculty of Social Science with over 250 physical participants and virtual attendee. The Lecture with...
Announcing the Omega Resilience Awards Africa (ORA-A) Fellowship 2023
The Omega Resilience Awards - Africa (ORA-A), focusing primarily on identifying young visionaries begins today. The fellowship is open to Africans who are under the age of 40 years and are preferably involved in social movements and have their origins in the...
Akamba Mfina: Climate Chaos in the Animal Kingdom
Discussions on the climate crisis often centre on the extreme weather events that humans experience, and on how global warming impacts countries’ economies. The world has hardly considered how the crisis is affecting the many other beings who suffer the brunt of...
After COP27, Africa Risks Being a Stranded Continent
COP 27 ended without any other significant shining light besides the Loss and Damage proposal. Hopes that the COP would call for a phased out of all fossil fuels were dashed. The campaign for climate debt has been campaigned for by civil societies for years. This...
COP: Damaged and Lost
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Conference of Parties (COP) have studiously avoided naming fossil fuels as the Primary source of greenhouse gases driving climate change. The United Nations estimates that fossil fuels account...
HOMEF Trains Farmers in Rivers State on Agroecology
To enable small-scale farmers, produce food optimally with methods that are ecologically sound and economically viable, and in response to the overwhelming dominance of huge transnational conglomerates in agriculture, who are monopolizing food in Africa and beyond,...
Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Victims of Climate Change
Editor's note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length from the author’s conversation with Nnimmo Bassey on October 7, 2022. For access to the full interview’s audio and transcript, you can stream this episode on Breaking Green’s website or wherever you...
African Women at the Frontline of Climate Crisis
As the Conference of Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Egypt draws apace, there is an increasing effort to strengthen and unify women-led struggle against destructive large-scale climate projects, false solutions to...
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