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Fish Not Oil – Okrika Waterfront Declaration of the FishNet Alliance
FishNet Alliance members and allies from different African countries met at Okrika waterfront, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria for her first General Assembly on 6th - 8thAugust, 2019. The platform of the general assembly was also used to link the...
Stopping the Extractivist Addiction
Niger Delta Declaration of OilWatch Africa - People not Oil, Food not Oil and Fish not Oil Oilwatch Africa network members, allies and community representatives met in the Niger Delta city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, from 6thto 8thof August, 2019 to assess and discuss...
Civil Society Organizations in Edo State Call for a Ban on GMOs
Civil Society Organizations in Edo State gathered in Ugbowo on 25 July, 2019 in a Dialogue on Food and Farming System in Nigeria organized by Health of Mother Earth Foundation. The highly interactive meeting examined the implications...
The Classroom of Life has no graduation
The Classroom of life has no graduation. Life offers classrooms without walls. Increasingly we are seeing these learning spaces to be the streets. They remain enclosed by our environment and our culture. Importantly, the Classroom of life has no graduation. The...
HOMEF Holds a 3-day School of Ecology on Climate Justice
Health of Mother Earth Foundation held the 3rdsession of her School of Ecology on Climate Justice in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, 8-10 July 2019. The school featured intense interactions and interrogations on issues of climate change - the impacts, major contributors, the...
Eco-Instigator #24
We are here again with yet another thought-provoking edition of our quarterly publication, eco-Instigator. Mother Earth, our planet, is on the sick bed because of the irresponsible anthropogenic degradation she currently faces. We simply cannot stand aside and watch...
Civil Society Denounces the Release of GM mosquitoes in Burkina Faso
2 July 2019 We, the undersigned civil society organisations from Africa and around the world, denounce the release of genetically modified (GM) “male-sterile” mosquitoes in Burkina Faso. The GM mosquitoes were released in the village of Bana on 1 July 2019 by the...
HOMEF and Other Groups Object to NRCRI’s GM Cassava Application
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance and 43 other Civil Society Organisations, representing millions of Nigerians have urged the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) to reject the application by the National Root Crops...
Global Environmental Politics, Human Rights and Conflicts
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in collaboration with the Right Livelihood College, Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Center for Conflict and Gender Studies at the University of Port Harcourt organized the 2019 Right Livelihood Lecture on 28 May, 2019 with the...
University Students Call for Alternatives to GMOs
Once again, students of Agriculture have called for a ban on products of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Nigeria. This call was made at the recent Dialogue organised by Health of Mother Earth Foundation with the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of...
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