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Don’t Geoengineer Africa (Policy Brief)
Africa is being targeted by various actors to advance some of the most controversial technologies ever conceived, Geoengineering is one of such awful technologies. We see geoengineering proponents increasingly attempting to normalize geoengineering and confusing the...
GMOS, Biosafety And Human Rights
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, promoting...
School Of Ecology On Weaning From Fossil Addiction And Healing Territories
In the over 60years of crude oil exploration in Nigeria, oil-bearing communities and their environments have been plagued by heart-wrenching impacts from this unwholesome venture of oil and gas exploration ranging from massive pollution of land, water, and air leading...
Culture of Survival at Makoko
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 well-being. It tells the narrative of how they...
Nnimmo Bassey to receive the 2024 Wallenberg Medal
Leading Nigerian environmentalist, architect, poet and humanitarian Nnimmo Bassey has been announced as the recipient of the esteemed 2024 Wallenberg Medal. The Wallenberg Medal of the University of Michigan is a humanitarian award given to outstanding humanitarians...
Obagi – A Community Set on Fire
The residents of Obagi, a rural community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, who happen to be the hosts of oil companies like the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG), Total Energies, and AGIP, have been forced to flee their community...
TELA Maize: Nigeria’s Wrong Idea on Food Security
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 insect-resistant and drought-tolerant variety along with other ‘’high-yielding crop...
Shell must address ecological concerns before leaving
On the 16th of January 2024, Shell announced on its website and social media platform X that it had reached an agreement to sell its Nigerian onshore subsidiary SPDC to a consortium of domestic and international oil companies for a total net fee of $2.8 billion....
Eco-Instigator #42
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 think tank and advocacy organisation. That moment was loaded with gratitude as we recalled milestones of...
No Fisheries Policies Without Fishers
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 navigable by the connecting inland waters that stretches about 10,000km – encircling whole...
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