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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...
Call for Applications for Omega Resilience Awards Africa (ORA-A) Fellowship 2024
This is a call for applications into the Omega Resilience Awards - Africa (ORA - A) Fellowship programme for 2024. Applications are invited from visionaries, activists, academics, artists, communicators and organisers involved in movements or struggles...
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...
Championing Environmental Justice – York University Honours Nnimmo Bassey
On 13 October 2023, Nnimmo Bassey, the Executive Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), was conferred with an honorary Doctorate Degree in Law by York University during their fall convocation. York University, Toronto, is the third...
Eco-Instigator #41 – Navigating the Great Unravelling
After celebrating a decade of great achievements in the struggle for environmental justice and food sovereignty, we are back in the trenches and the journey continues. Memories of the moments of reflection are brought to you by the keynote paper presented by...
Ologbo Tank Fire Incident
In the early morning of October 1st, 2023, while the nation was getting ready to celebrate the 63rd Independence of the Nigerian State, community people and commuters plying the Warri-Sapele road were victims of a tanker explosion. The explosion occurred at about...
Climate Change, Adaptation and Mitigation -A Gender Perspective
On 19th September 2023, Health of Mother Earth Foundation in collaboration with Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre and Obelle Concerned Citizens (OCC) held a capacity-building meeting on Climate Change, Adaptation, and Mitigation for women drawn...
Impacts of Extractivism on Coastal Communities
FishNet Alliance General Assembly and Conference Declaration (10th August 2023, St Louis, Senegal) The scramble for Africa is once more very visible and evident, just by looking at the rate at which Europe and America are pushing for gas exploitation in the continent...
Need for a Cohesive Food Policy for Nigeria
The indiscriminate import and use of internationally banned and Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) has severe consequences for human health, the environment and the economics of households, communities and the nation at large. The impacts of pesticides on human health...
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