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by HOMEf | Oct 16, 2026 | Fossil Politics
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) calls for urgent action to protect the Edumanom Forest Reserve (now Edumanom National Park) in Bayelsa State while safeguarding the rights, livelihoods and wellbeing of the communities that have lived alongside and depended on the forest for generations. Conservation cannot succeed through exclusion, unclear boundaries or the neglect of...
by HOMEf | Oct 14, 2026 | Fossil Politics
Communities around the Apoi Creek Forest Reserve (now National Park) in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State are questioning a conservation approach they say has restricted access to traditional sources of food and income while leaving them exposed to the effects of oil pollution and biodiversity loss. On April 30, 2008, the Apoi...
by HOMEf | Oct 9, 2026 | Hunger Politics
Recent participatory action research (PAR) conducted in Nigeria has confirmed overall improvement in agricultural productivity and climate resilience through agroecological initiatives. Agroecological practices, rooted in ecological principles, indigenous knowledge, and farmer-led innovation, deliver measurable benefits in soil fertility restoration, yield stability, income diversification, improved nutrition, biodiversity conservation, and resilience to climate shocks. The participatory action...
by HOMEf | Sep 24, 2026 | Fossil Politics
Abandonment must not be the final stage of extraction Ikono, Ibiono communities demand justice against extractive harm For seven decades, communities in Ikono and Ibiono Ibom Local Government Areas of...
by HOMEf | Sep 18, 2026 | Ikike, Learning from the Wise
HOMEF Wisdom Gatherings demand indigenous knowledge and community power in environmental restoration Climate and environmental justice are also struggles over language, knowledge, culture, and power. When communities lose the languages...
by HOMEf | Aug 14, 2026 | Hunger Politics
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), through the Hunger Politics Work Track, organised a one-day Practical Agroecology Training for Smallholder Farmers on 30 July 2026 at the SCL Farms, Kwali...
by HOMEf | Jul 31, 2026 | Eco-Instigator
This June edition of the Eco-Instigator comes at a time when the world is increasingly bedevilled by overlapping crises: wars, ecological collapse, displacements, and deepening inequalities. Across continents, these realities...
by HOMEf | Jul 22, 2026 | Fossil Politics
A resource is discovered; governments celebrate its economic promise, investors arrive, licences are issued, and extraction begins. Wealth leaves the territory, while pollution, damaged livelihoods and broken landscapes remain. Communities...
by HOMEf | Jul 8, 2026 | Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics
Seventy years after Nigeria began commercial oil production, stakeholders from across the Niger Delta have called for an end to new fossil fuel extraction, insisting that the region needs environmental...
by HOMEf | Jun 24, 2026 | Fossil Politics, General, Ikike
Rapid urban expansion in Nigeria’s coastal cities is producing severe environmental trade-offs that undermine climate resilience, livelihoods, and justice. Under the banner of development, waterfront and coastal communities are increasingly...
by HOMEf | Jun 1, 2026 | Ikike, School of Ecology
We are living in a moment when the world is asking difficult questions about climate breakdown, ecological collapse, and deepening inequality, yet offering increasingly convenient answers. Across global policy spaces,...
by HOMEf | May 21, 2026 | Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike, NDAC
The Niger Delta sits on one of the world’s most ecologically damaged landscapes: a region whose natural wealth has been extracted for decades while its communities absorb the compounding costs of...