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Environmentalists Reject NOSDRA’s Report on Dead Fish Along Niger Delta Coastlines
Press Release 15 May 2020 Environmentalists Reject NOSDRA’s Report on Dead Fish Along Niger Delta Coastlines We recall the reports of dead fish washing up on an extensive stretch of the Niger Delta coastline which first broke out on 20th February 2020 when community...
HOMEF Staff Vacancy: Communications Officer
HOMEF is seeking a Communications Officer that will be responsible for supporting a comprehensive range of organisational communications and report on activities to promote the goals of HOMEF. The officer will be expected to develop content to support the work, engage...
Massive Death of Fish Across The Atlantic Coastline of The Niger Delta
Between February and April 2020 while the nation is on lock-down due to the coronavirus pandemic, fishers and community people across the Atlantic Coastline of the Niger Delta have witnessed the unusual death and washing ashore fish. This incident has occurred in...
Eco-Instigator #27
Climate change, driven by human actions, is changing the face of our planet whether we acknowledge this fact or not. It is shocking that although the major underlying factors are known, the selfish need to maintain so-called high living standards continues to blind...
Press release: Earth Day Communique
21st April 2020 The health emergency we face as a global community is interconnected to the health emergency the Earth is facing: it’s steady degradation, the extinction and disappearance of species and the climate emergency. This Corona virus pandemic and...
Watch the Coronavirus Pandemic!
HOMEF calls on African civil society to unite and closely monitor the way COVID-19 and its related policies are evolving in Africa Lagos (Nigeria), 22nd April 2020. COVID-19 has gripped the world and its people in a crisis that has no precedent in the...
Ban GMOs – CSOs Demand in Lagos
On the 17th of March 2020, hundreds of Nigerians including farmers, CSOs, community persons, lawyers, medical practitioners, students, scientists, youth and women groups led by Health of Mother Earth Foundation and the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance marched against...
Resolutions from Stakeholders’ Conference on Biosafety/Biodiversity.
23 March 2020. Abuja, Nigeria. The issue of biosafety is one of continuous concern and one that requires critical attention and constant interrogation especially as modern agricultural biotechnology advances speedily at various levels and its products freely make...
Petition to the Lagos State Governor on GMO Crops in Nigeria
17 March 2020 Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu Governor Lagos State Mr. Governor, URGENT NEED TO BAN GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED CROPS IN NIGERIA AND TO REPEAL THE NATIONAL BIOSAFETY MANAGEMENT AGENCY ACT Gathered here today are farmers, youths, women, scientists, medical...
School of Ecology, Uyo 2020
The School of Ecology (SoE) is a part of HOMEF’s IKIKE, a knowledge space for the interrogation of concepts, policies and actions on various issues, ranging from environmental/climate justice, agriculture, re-source governance and overall socio-ecological...
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