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The Classroom of Life has no graduation
The Classroom of life has no graduation. Life offers classrooms without walls. Increasingly we are seeing these learning spaces to be the streets. They remain enclosed by our environment and our culture. Importantly, the Classroom of life has no graduation. The...
HOMEF Holds a 3-day School of Ecology on Climate Justice
Health of Mother Earth Foundation held the 3rdsession of her School of Ecology on Climate Justice in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, 8-10 July 2019. The school featured intense interactions and interrogations on issues of climate change - the impacts, major contributors, the...
Eco-Instigator #24
We are here again with yet another thought-provoking edition of our quarterly publication, eco-Instigator. Mother Earth, our planet, is on the sick bed because of the irresponsible anthropogenic degradation she currently faces. We simply cannot stand aside and watch...
Civil Society Denounces the Release of GM mosquitoes in Burkina Faso
2 July 2019 We, the undersigned civil society organisations from Africa and around the world, denounce the release of genetically modified (GM) “male-sterile” mosquitoes in Burkina Faso. The GM mosquitoes were released in the village of Bana on 1 July 2019 by the...
HOMEF and Other Groups Object to NRCRI’s GM Cassava Application
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance and 43 other Civil Society Organisations, representing millions of Nigerians have urged the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) to reject the application by the National Root Crops...
Global Environmental Politics, Human Rights and Conflicts
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in collaboration with the Right Livelihood College, Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Center for Conflict and Gender Studies at the University of Port Harcourt organized the 2019 Right Livelihood Lecture on 28 May, 2019 with the...
University Students Call for Alternatives to GMOs
Once again, students of Agriculture have called for a ban on products of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Nigeria. This call was made at the recent Dialogue organised by Health of Mother Earth Foundation with the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of...
Reject Bill to Include Extreme Biotechnology in Biosafety Act-Experts Implore President Buhari
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance and over 40 Non-Governmental Organizations representing millions of Nigerians have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to not sign into law, the recently passed Bill for an Act to amend the...
Biodiversity-Key to Healthy Societies, Says HOMEF
The ecological Think Tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in a statement which was made available to the media on 21 May 2019, to mark the International Day of Biodiversity called for concerted efforts towards the preservation of biodiversity and towards...
HOMEF Dialogues with the Department of Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment on Geoengineering
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) on 13th May 2019 met with officials at the Climate Change Department of the Federal Ministry of Environment in a roundtable session to discuss HOMEF’s concerns about Geoengineering (GE). HOMEF had on the 25th of February,...
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