213 posts
by HOMEf | Apr 22, 2024 | Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike
The Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been home to oil and gas extraction since the 1950s, when oil was first discovered in commercial quantities. Since then, search operations had...
by HOMEf | Apr 4, 2024 | Hunger Politics, Judicial Training
Regulation of biosafety in Nigeria is crucial for the protection of human health, conservation of the environment, ensuring agricultural sustain-ability, complying with international standards, building consumer confidence, addressing ethical considerations,...
by HOMEf | Mar 14, 2024 | FishNet, Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike, Uncategorized
Survival Stories and strategic discussions are based on how a group of people (community) survives the impacts of climate change, environmental crisis and government policies that seems to distort their...
by HOMEf | Jan 31, 2024 | General, Hunger Politics
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Thursday the 11th of January 2024 openly approved the open cultivation and commercial release of the TELA maize which is said to be a transgenic...
by HOMEf | Jan 16, 2024 | Eco-Instigator, Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike
The ebbing year was tremendously significant for us at HOMEF. We had a moment to look at the ten years that have rolled by since our commencement as an ecological...
by HOMEf | Nov 22, 2023 | FishNet, Fossil Politics, Hunger Politics, Press Release
Nigeria has a coastline of about 853km with Lagos, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, and Cross River as littoral states. 28 out of the 36 states in Nigeria are...
by HOMEf | Nov 17, 2023 | Hunger Politics, Media Training
Background The insurgence of chemical pesticides has been accompanied by growing concerns about the impacts of these products on humans, biodiversity, and the environment. In recent months, successful litigation across...
by HOMEf | Nov 6, 2023 | Hunger Politics, Publication, Report
There are several issues today exerting pressure on the food system in Nigeria and in Africa at large. These issues range from wars to inflation, biodiversity loss, climate change, industrialization,...
by HOMEf | Oct 16, 2023 | Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike, Press Release
On 13 October 2023, Nnimmo Bassey, the Executive Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), was conferred with an honorary Doctorate Degree in Law by York University during their fall...
by HOMEf | Oct 11, 2023 | Eco-Instigator, Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Publication
After celebrating a decade of great achievements in the struggle for environmental justice and food sovereignty, we are back in the trenches and the journey continues. Memories of the moments of...
by HOMEf | Oct 4, 2023 | Fossil Politics, Hunger Politics
On 19th September 2023, Health of Mother Earth Foundation in collaboration with Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre and Obelle Concerned Citizens (OCC) held a capacity-building meeting on Climate Change, Adaptation, and Mitigation for women drawn from Edo, Delta,...
by HOMEf | Sep 6, 2023 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
The indiscriminate import and use of internationally banned and Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) has severe consequences for human health, the environment and the economics of households, communities and the nation...