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School of Ecology Interrogates New and Emerging Technologies in Africa
Currently, the world is struggling to address two major crises - food insecurity and climate change. To this end, various technological solutions have been proposed/implemented. Some of these technologies are being deployed in Africa without adequate regulatory...
What’s on Our Plates 2023
This edition of “What’s on Our Plates?” highlights the increasing number and distribution of processed food products containing GMOs on our market shelves. The report highlights public perceptions towards GMOs and attitudes toward labeling in...
Solving the Food and Climate Crises
PRACTICAL AGROECOLOGY TRAINING FOR CSOS/TRAINERS Held at the BHF Agroforestry Farm, Kwali, Abuja on 17-18 May 2024 Background The world is currently grappling with two major crises - hunger and climate change - caused significantly by an agricultural model that...
House of Reps Pulls a Stop on GMOs
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance have commended the House of Representatives on the resolution to comprehensively investigate the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)into Nigeria and for a halt...
Ogoni Oil in the Eye of the Storm
In 1993, Shell was forced out of Ogoniland where it had extracted crude oil non-stop for decades with unbelievable ecological consequences. The Ogoni people, mobilized under the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), had issued a set of demands...
Clean up the Niger Delta and resolve the Environmental Genocide
Nigerians rightfully deserve to live in a society that boasts of peace, human security, and prosperity in the conviction that all Citizens and Public Officers have a duty to make every constructive contribution towards truly attaining these goals....
Eco-Instigator #43
The year 2024 is promising. We’ve already hit the ground running with several activities, including the first in-person meeting with our Omega Resilience Awards, Africa. It was a moment to have a holistic feel of how the fellows were navigating the...
Farmers in Enugu State Embrace Agroecology
On the 17th of April, 2024, Health of Mother Earth Foundation in collaboration with the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance and the Network of Women and Youth in Agriculture held a practical training on Agroecology for farmers in Enugu State. This training focused on...
Learning from the Wise (LftW) with Morris Alagoa
Niger Delta – a region blessed with biodiversity and natural re-sources, the most fertile and greenest part of Nigeria – has over the years since the discovery of oil in commercial quantity and production experienced what would be described as retrogression. The oil...
Stop Poisoning Us, Communities Tell Oil Companies
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 gone on for hydrocarbons both on land and on water – leading to more discoveries...
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