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Resolutions from Conference and Workshop on Seeds, Foods and Biosafety in Nigeria
Held at Apo Apartments, Apo, Abuja on 10/11 April 2019 The state of biosafety in Nigeria does require critical interrogations as concerns mount up about the implications of modern agricultural biotechnology. These concerns are further increased as Nigeria begins move...
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In memory of Larry Bowoto, community leader and human rights hero
We were greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Larry Bowoto, who died on Tuesday night in Nigeria, his home. Larry was the lead plaintiff in Bowoto v. Chevron Corp., a landmark human rights case in San Francisco, which EarthRights and others litigated for over 10...
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Memorandum on the Proposed NBMA Review to include Extreme Biotech
The CBD made a landmark decision as one of the outcomes of the Conference of Parties (COP14) of the UN Convention on Biological held in November 2018. The decision called on governments to conduct strict risk assessments and to seek indigenous and local peoples’...
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Rethink Order on Ogoni Oil
Government Should Immediately Withdraw the Order for Resumption of Oil Exploitation in Ogoni Land The Health of Mother Earth Foundation and We the People notes with alarm and unease the recent memo reportedly originating from the Presidency and addressed to the Group...
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Eco-Instigator #23
Welcome to our first edition in 2019. As you already know, eco-Instigator brings us exciting, informative, educative and inspiring articles/reports. These are aimed at instigating actions to save our Mother Earth and recover our collective human dignity. In 2018 we...
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Nnimmo Bassey speaks at the Elevate Festival 2019 Opening Show
The 15th anniversary edition of the Elevate Festival is dedicated - in times of felt facts and new myths - to the key concept of today's knowledge society: "TRUTH" - and its many (un)secret siblings. One focus of the discourse programme is on activists who are...
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When Fishers Unite
By Stephen Oduware (Project Officer, Sustainability Academy, HOMEF) Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) organized an exchange visit meeting between fishers in Nigeria and Togo. This event held on December 28, 2018 in Makoko community, Lagos State, Nigeria. The...
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HOMEF & others Denounce issuance of Permits for Commercial Release of Bt Cowpea (Beans) and Reject Application for Cassava Field Trials
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and a coalition of CSOs and farmers denounce the recent approval for release of Btcowpea (beans) for cultivation in Nigeria and demand a rejection of the application for field trials of a cassava clone, asserting that the...
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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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