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Petition to the Lagos State Governor on GMO Crops in Nigeria
17 March 2020 Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu Governor Lagos State Mr. Governor, URGENT NEED TO BAN GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED CROPS IN NIGERIA AND TO REPEAL THE NATIONAL BIOSAFETY MANAGEMENT AGENCY ACT Gathered here today are farmers, youths, women, scientists, medical...
School of Ecology, Uyo 2020
The School of Ecology (SoE) is a part of HOMEF’s IKIKE, a knowledge space for the interrogation of concepts, policies and actions on various issues, ranging from environmental/climate justice, agriculture, re-source governance and overall socio-ecological...
Call to Revoke AGRA’s Agnes Kalibata as Special Envoy to 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Dear Secretary-General Guterres, We, the undersigned 170 organizations from 83 countries, write to condemn and reject the appointment of Agnes Kalibata, President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as your Special Envoy to the 2021 UN...
Communiqué of the 2020 Africa Energy Leaders Summit
From 28th to 29th January 2020, MELCA-Ethiopia, Oil Change International, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Oxfam, and Power Shift Africa convened the Africa Energy Leaders Summit at the Ambassador Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At the Summit, civil society leaders...
What’s on our Plates? 2019
HOMEF conducted a follow-up survey of our markets, revisiting cities earlier surveyed and a few others to check the presence of genetically modified products and to further increase awareness on their implications. The survey identified food products which are clearly...
Eco-Instigator #26
Weather events in 2019 confirmed that climate change is here with us, no matter how deep into the sands anyone may wish to bury their head. It has been a year when millions around the world stood together to demand climate actions. The storms came closer home, staring...
Music, Journalism and Ecological Defence
The nexus that exists between journalism, music, art and the society is so intricate and vital that it hold the keys to solving the existential societal problems and those of environmental pollution. Health Earth of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) on 13 November...
Reporting and Defending our Biosafety
Consumers cannot be said to have a choice on whether or not to accept or eat food products of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) unless they know what these organisms/foods are. Beyond knowing about the application of agricultural genetic modification, farmers and...
Threat to Fisheries in the Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea in which the coastal line of Nigeria falls is an area with a high diversity of marine biodiversity. It is also known to have the largest mangrove water systems in the world. Fisheries provide food and employment to millions of citizens in the...
The Coming Green Colonialism
We have entered the era of Nature-based colonialism. Call it the Green Colonialism. The gloves are coming off. The climate crisis in the world is being approached as a mere unfolding change, as business opportunities and not as an emergency that requires...
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