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by HOMEf | Oct 7, 2025 | General, Hunger Politics, Press Release
Communique from the National Symposium on GMOs held on 01 September 2025 at Qualibest Grand Hotel, Utako, Abuja Background The National Symposium on GMOs (genetically modified organisms) was hosted by...
by HOMEf | Jul 30, 2025 | Farmer's Training, General, Hunger Politics, Press Release
Background Agricultural systems across the world are under increasing pressure to meet growing food demands. This pressure is high in Nigeria due to purportedly high population indices, coupled with climate...
by HOMEf | Jun 20, 2025 | Fossil Politics, General, News, Press Release
A coalition of civil society organisations – Social Action Nigeria, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), the International Working Group on Petroleum Pollution and the Just Transition in the...
by HOMEf | Jun 7, 2025 | General, Hunger Politics, Press Release
Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, and the GMO-free Nigeria Alliance have called on the Federal Government to place a moratorium on the use...
by HOMEf | Nov 26, 2024 | Fossil Politics, General, Press Release
The discussion around energy, its costs, and stranded communities has alarming statistics, including decades of oil pollution contaminating the soil, water, and air of the Niger Delta. Climate change disproportionately...
by HOMEf | Sep 30, 2024 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
A coalition of over 100 civil society actors, farmers, scientists, legal practitioners, and academics representing 100 million Nigerian consumers have placed a demand on the Nigerian Government to discontinue plans to introduce...
by HOMEf | Sep 11, 2024 | Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike, Press Release
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) celebrates with her Executive Director, Dr Nnimmo Bassey, on the prestigious honour of the 2024 Wallenberg Medal. Bassey is the first Nigerian and the...
by HOMEf | Sep 3, 2024 | General, Hunger Politics, Press Release, Uncategorized
Background Since the setup of the National Biosafety Management Agency Act in 2015, more than 20 different crop varieties have been approved by the Agency for various purposes including commercial...
by HOMEf | Jul 5, 2024 | Fossil Politics, General, News, Press Release
Nigeria is confronted with a number of critical ecological challenges that affect its population’s well-being. These challenges are caused by a number of factors, including a long history of reckless...
by HOMEf | May 21, 2024 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance have commended the House of Representatives on the resolution to comprehensively investigate the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)into Nigeria and for...
by HOMEf | May 21, 2024 | Fossil Politics, Press Release
In 1993, Shell was forced out of Ogoniland where it had extracted crude oil non-stop for decades with unbelievable ecological consequences. The Ogoni people, mobilized under the Movement for the Survival...
by HOMEf | Jan 18, 2024 | Fossil Politics, General, Press Release
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...