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...
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...
GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance, HOMEF and other CSOs Condemn Efforts to Sway the Public to Accept Agricultural Biotechnology and Denounce Release of Genetically Modified Cotton into Nigeria
by HOMEf | Nov 21, 2018 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
The GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and over 35 other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in a statement made available to the media condemned efforts by government...
Do Not Betray Africa on SynBio and Gene Drives
by HOMEf | Nov 20, 2018 | Hunger Politics
As representatives of a broad range of African civil society organisations (CSOs), we do not feel represented by the delegations of Nigeria and South Africa, speaking on behalf of African...
African Union’s endorsement of unproven gene drive mosquitoes “misguided”
by HOMEf | Nov 20, 2018 | Hunger Politics
The African Union (AU) is paving the way for the entry of the latest and most controversial form of genetic engineering – gene drive technologies. In July 2018 the AU...
Community Dialogue on Food and Farming Systems in Nigeria
by HOMEf | Oct 16, 2018 | Hunger Politics
Health of Mother Earth Foundation hosted a Community Dialogue on Food and Farming Systems in Nigeria on September 21, 2018, at Ugbiyoko Community in Benin City with about a hundred farmers from various...
Hands off Mother Earth
by HOMEf | Oct 4, 2018 | General
We invite you to join 110 civil society organizations and popular movements in denouncing geoengineering and demanding an immediate stop to all open-air experiments. To read the Manifesto, visit here. If...
Farmers Do Matter
by HOMEf | Sep 22, 2018 | Hunger Politics
Farmers Do Matter Small-scale or family farmers feed the world. This is an incontrovertible fact. This fact is unfortunately often overlooked. The willful rejection of the truth that small-scale farmers...
Court Decides on GMO Case: HOMEF and CSOs Pledge to Fight on!
by HOMEf | Aug 15, 2018 | Hunger Politics
The Federal High Court of Justice, sitting in Abuja on the 15th August, struck out the Plaintiffs suit the GMO case with suit No: FHC/ABJ/C5/846/2017 due to technicalities. The Judge...
Oilwatch Africa: The Lamu Declaration
by HOMEf | Aug 11, 2018 | Fossil Politics
Oilwatch Africa network members, Lamu community representatives, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), community-based organisations (CBOs) met in Lamu Kenya, on 7th and 8th August, 2018 at a conference on the theme: Beyond...
The School of Ecology: Life After Oil
by HOMEf | Aug 10, 2018 | General, Ikike
Health of Mother Earth Foundation held the maiden session of the School of Ecology with the theme Life after Oil on 30-31July at the organisation’s head office in Benin City,...