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Reclaim Our Languages, Restore Our Environment
HOMEF Wisdom Gatherings demand indigenous knowledge and community power in environmental restoration Climate and environmental justice are also struggles over language, knowledge, culture, and power. When communities lose the languages through which they understand...
Farmers Insist on Agroecology for Food Sovereignty in Nigeria
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), through the Hunger Politics Work Track, organised a one-day Practical Agroecology Training for Smallholder Farmers on 30 July 2026 at the SCL Farms, Kwali Area Council, Abuja, in collaboration with Be the Help Foundation. The...
Eco-Instigator #52
This June edition of the Eco-Instigator comes at a time when the world is increasingly bedevilled by overlapping crises: wars, ecological collapse, displacements, and deepening inequalities. Across continents, these realities continue to expose the fragility of...
Forests, Critical Minerals, and the Crisis of Human Security
A resource is discovered; governments celebrate its economic promise, investors arrive, licences are issued, and extraction begins. Wealth leaves the territory, while pollution, damaged livelihoods and broken landscapes remain. Communities that live closest to the...
70 Years of Oil Extraction: Niger Delta Demands Healing, Not More Oil Wells
Seventy years after Nigeria began commercial oil production, stakeholders from across the Niger Delta have called for an end to new fossil fuel extraction, insisting that the region needs environmental restoration, reparations, and a just transition rather than more...
Drowning Communities: Human Rights, Loss and the Price for Development
Rapid urban expansion in Nigeria’s coastal cities is producing severe environmental trade-offs that undermine climate resilience, livelihoods, and justice. Under the banner of development, waterfront and coastal communities are increasingly exposed to forced...
School of Ecology on Igniting Ecological Consciousness
We are living in a moment when the world is asking difficult questions about climate breakdown, ecological collapse, and deepening inequality, yet offering increasingly convenient answers. Across global policy spaces, these crises are often framed as challenges that...
Time for Accountability and Decommissioning
The Niger Delta sits on one of the world’s most ecologically damaged landscapes: a region whose natural wealth has been extracted for decades while its communities absorb the compounding costs of pollution, abandoned infrastructure, and political neglect. The oil...
Laugh, Resist, Survive
At a time of deepening ecological crisis, widening social injustice, and rising activist burnout, environmental justice advocates are advancing an unexpected yet powerful response to the demand for resilience, urgency, and moral courage – humour. Activists are always...
Eco-Instigator #51
We welcome this edition of the Eco-Instigator with a deepened sense of urgency and an unshaken commitment to ecological justice. This edition comes at a time when the fractures in our socio-ecological systems are no longer subtle but have become more visible in forced...
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