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Conversation with Amilcar Cabral: From Agronomist to Liberator
As the struggles for human and environmental rights rage across the world, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) considered it important to create a platform called Conversations, for learning and sharing ideas from the struggles of iconic leaders (living or...
We can’t breathe – Africa chokes on COVID-19 and fossil fuel flames
Communiqué from Oilwatch Africa Annual General Meeting 2020 Preamble: On the 10th of August 2020, Oilwatch Africa, held a virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM), with the theme- We can’t breathe – Africa Choking on COVID and Fossil flames. The AGM was attended...
Blue Economy Blues
From Green Economy to Blue Economy, the concepts keep evolving. What do they mean, who is behind them, who will benefit from them, who or what will be threatened by them? Join us as we interrogate the Blue Economy concept in the next session of our School of Ecology....
HOMEF, other Groups and Individuals Call on African Governments to Withdraw from AGRA
Liberating African Agriculture On 6 August 2020, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in collaboration with the African Faith and Justice Network (AFJN), Navdanya International, and the Institute for Research and Promotion of Alternative Development (IRPAD)...
Biosafety is no Gamble
From 2016 when the first formal approvals were issued by the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Nigeria has turned out to be the gaping hole through which the flood of GMOs are dumped, threatening the entire continent. Besides the crops approved for field...
Corruption Allegations In NDDC Must Be Investigated And Culprits Diligently Prosecuted
Niger Delta. July 29, 2020… We are deeply concerned about recent revelations on the scale of corruption and mismanagement in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). We recall that the NDDC was established in 2000 as one of the first tasks of the new democratic...
Food, Farming and COVID-19
There are several pointers to the fact that COVID-19 and similar disease outbreaks are as a result of our encroachment on natural habitats and destruction of genetic diversity occasioned by the industrial system of agriculture and other economic activities. The...
Groups Warn Against the Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in Nigeria
Over 75 Civil Society Organizations from Nigeria, Africa and other countries in the world have condemned moves to open the way for the release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Nigeria. On Friday 6 June 2020, at a virtual meeting of the West African...
Eco-Instigator #28
By the time our 27th edition went to bed in February 2020, no one could have envisioned that the world would shortly thereafter go into a a dreadful lockdown. It has been a season of fears, panic and doubts. Fear of getting caught in the web of the coronavirus. Panic...
Stakeholders Propose Energy Alternatives for Africa
On the 22nd and 23rd June 2020, local and international CSOs / NGOs from Ghana, Togo, Senegal, Brazil, Philippines, Algeria, Kenya as well as from Nigeria, joined Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in a two-day virtual dialogue / School of Ecology on...
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