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When Fishers Unite

by HOMEf | Feb 7, 2019 | Hunger Politics

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...

HOMEF & others Denounce issuance of Permits for Commercial Release of Bt Cowpea (Beans) and Reject Application for Cassava Field Trials

by HOMEf | Feb 4, 2019 | Hunger Politics, Press Release

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...

Nigerians Reject GMOs: Refuses to be Used For Experiments

by HOMEf | Jan 18, 2019 | Hunger Politics, Report

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...

Assessing Clean Drinking Water Availability in Juba, South Sudan

by HOMEf | Jan 16, 2019 | Hunger Politics, Report

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...

What’s on Our Plates? Report

by HOMEf | Jan 9, 2019 | Hunger Politics, 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...

Eco-Instigator #22

by HOMEf | Dec 27, 2018 | Eco-Instigator

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...

A “Conference of Polluters”: How Fossil Fuel Companies Are Shaping Policy at the U.N. Climate Summit

by HOMEf | Dec 14, 2018 | Fossil Politics

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Kick the Polluters our of the COP (a COP24 poem)

by HOMEf | Dec 13, 2018 | Fossil Politics

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...

Fuel to the Fire – drivers, profiteers and losers of geoengineering

by HOMEf | Dec 6, 2018 | Fossil Politics

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...