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Why Nigeria/Africa Needs a Cohesive Food Policy
Nigeria and Africa at large are combating food system related issues such as malnutrition, environmental degradation, the rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), cultural erosion and injustice. These issues can mostly be linked to defective or inadequate food...
Shell Moving Offshore To Evade Clean Up Responsibility – Groups Alert FG
Civil society groups in Nigeria have urged the Nigerian government to compel Shell to clean up the massive pollution its extractive activities have created in the Niger Delta and cautioned that the company’s plans to divest its operations by moving offshore is only...
Big Win in Uganda – Tanzania Pipeline as Financiers Withdraw
On the 10th of April 2021, the governments of Uganda and Tanzania, alongside the French multinational Total and the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), signed the final agreements that will kickstart the construction of a controversial $3.5...
African civil society refuses to engage with UNFSS without radical change – AFSA
May 3, 2021 Dr. Agnes Kalibata Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit Prerequisites for engaging with the UNFSS Dear Dr. Kalibata AFSA acknowledges your invitation of 17th September 2020 to be part...
Unending Tragedies following Oil Spill in Opuama’s Land and Water
The people of Opuama community in Egbema Kingdom, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State have continued to lament on tragedies that have befallen them following a terrifying oil spill that contaminated their land and water on 14 March 2021. When an...
The State of Biosafety in Nigeria: Resolutions from the Stakeholders’ Conference
There is increased push for the adoption of risky technologies such as genetic engineering especially in crop and animal breeding. This has heightened biosafety risks in many countries including Nigeria. With these risks the safety of the public and environment in...
Scholars Resolve on Issues of Environmental Justice
The environment has been subjected to so much flagrant damage basically because there is no enforcement of laws enacted against such acts. Ruinous exploitation of Nature for the extraction of capital has been permitted as a necessary evil. Subsidiaries of...
Stakeholders Clamour Support for Small Holder Farmers
Nigeria, like many other African countries, faces the challenge of ensuring sufficient food productivity/availability and economic resilience for farmers in the face of severe climatic impacts, farmers-herders crises, COVID-19 and a burgeoning population. The food...
Eco-Instigator #31
This is our Year of Building Alliances and Resistance. We are strengthening our capacity to break barriers to the recovery of climate resilience, to defend communities, stop destructive extraction and promote food safety and justice. In January 2021, we...
Conversations on Thomas Sankara- Lessons from Our Heroes Past
The lives and experiences of past and fallen phenomenal African leaders hold relevance not just for the sake of history but for current struggles. Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), in the first series of her Conversations, for 2021, organised in collaboration...
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