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Abuja Declaration on Emerging Technologies and their Implications for Africa
On 7th and 8th of October 2019, Health of Mother Earth Foundation and ETC Group organized a School of Ecology and a continent-wide gathering on new and emerging technologies and their implications for Africa. Present in these meetings were participants...
Eco-Instigator #25
The world can feed itself without the corporate appropriation of its food processes and systems. Giving in to a contrary stance will only lead to an implosion of the human race. In this edition we bring you revealing, compelling and educative features, poetry and book...
Justice Activist Backs Down on a Speaking Engagement in South Africa in Solidarity with Victims of Xenophobic Attacks
Renown environmental justice activist, Nnimmo Bassey, Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation, in solidarity with victims of the ongoing xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African nationals in South Africa has backed down on a speaking engagement at...
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...
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