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Nigerians Reject GMOs: Refuses to be Used For Experiments
Hundreds of people including farmers, youths, women, students, medical practitioners, and scientists and CSOs were convened in Abuja On 7 December 2018, by Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in a rally against products of agricultural biotechnology...
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Assessing Clean Drinking Water Availability in Juba, South Sudan
Since the independence of the Republic of the Sudan from the Great Britain in 1956, the southern region of the Sudan remained grossly neglected in terms of political and socio-economic development. This disparity in socio-economic development denied the southern...
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What’s on Our Plates? Report
Health of Mother Earth Foundation recognized the need to examine our market shelves to confirm the presence of genetically modified products to further increase awareness on their implications. The main objective of the survey was to identify food products which are...
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Eco-Instigator #22
The year could not slip by without our bringing you the December 2018 edition of your informative Eco-Instigator. The impacts of climate change are many – sea level rise, flooding, droughts, hurricanes, typhoons, weather irregularities, increased atmospheric...
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A “Conference of Polluters”: How Fossil Fuel Companies Are Shaping Policy at the U.N. Climate Summit
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Kick the Polluters our of the COP (a COP24 poem)
Today what do we say? Kick the polluters out of the COP Yesterday the world celebrated 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights In the Niger Delta we have endured 60 years of gross oil pollution, gas flares and human rights abuses Today the...
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Fuel to the Fire – drivers, profiteers and losers of geoengineering
Most scenarios limiting warming to 1.5°C involve deployment of risky and unproven technologies. Fossil fuel companies are potential profiteers and proponents of geoengineering. Support for those technologies, e.g in the land sector, could in the future also be sought...
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GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance, HOMEF and other CSOs Condemn Efforts to Sway the Public to Accept Agricultural Biotechnology and Denounce Release of Genetically Modified Cotton into Nigeria
Do Not Betray Africa on SynBio and Gene Drives
As representatives of a broad range of African civil society organisations (CSOs), we do not feel represented by the delegations of Nigeria and South Africa, speaking on behalf of African Group, in their attempt to speak on behalf of the people of Africa on the issue...
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African Union’s endorsement of unproven gene drive mosquitoes “misguided”
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 legislation" for...
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