Health of Mother Earth Foundation

Community Dialogue on Food and Farming Systems in Nigeria

Health of Mother Earth Foundation hosted a Community Dialogue on Food and Farming Systems in Nigeria on September 21, 2018, at Ugbiyoko Community in Benin City with about a hundred farmers from various communities in Edo State participating. The Dialogue provided a platform for examining the challenges facing agricultural production and the special threats posed by opening of the flood gates for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) to stream into Nigeria. Discussionr were also held on the way forward for improved agricultural productivity with emphasis on agroecology and support for smallscale farmers.

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Hands off Mother Earth

We invite you to join 110 civil society organizations and popular movements in denouncing geoengineering and demanding an immediate stop to all open-air experiments. To read the Manifesto, visit here. If your organization would like to join the fight against geoengineering and endorse the HOME Manifesto, please send an email to manifesto@geoengineeringmonitor.org.

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Farmers Do Matter

Small-scale or family farmers feed the world. This is an incontrovertible fact. This fact is unfortunately often overlooked. The willful rejection of the truth that small-scale farmers feed the world has persisted because accepting the truth would compel policy makers to refocus attention where it matters rather than pumping resources into industrial farming that create ecological and socioeconomic problems, and is vastly inefficient when outputs are compared to inputs.

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Court Decides on GMO Case: HOMEF and CSOs Pledge to Fight on!

The Federal High Court of Justice, sitting in Abuja on the 15th August, struck out the Plaintiffs suit the GMO case with suit No: FHC/ABJ/C5/846/2017 due to technicalities. The Judge in delivering his judgment said that it his opinion that although the plaintiffs have a Cause of Action in this matter, however the court’s hands are tied due to one of the objections raised by the defendants - the suit is statute barred. The suit was brought a year after the permits had been issued. According to the Judge it is a contravention of the provisions of the Public Officers Act, which states that any action instituted against a public officer as regards his/her discharge of duties must be instituted within three months, after the said breach occurred. The case was struck out not for lack of merit or lack cause of action (the court did establish a Cause of Action) but because of technicalities.

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Oilwatch Africa: The Lamu Declaration

Oilwatch Africa network members, Lamu community representatives, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), community-based organisations (CBOs) met in Lamu Kenya, on 7th and 8th August, 2018 at a conference on the theme: Beyond Fossil Fuels. The conference considered the politics of fossil fuel extractions, the impacts of fossil fuels on the continent and the strategy to unlock Africa’s power using alternatives to fossil fuels energy systems that are environmentally friendly and socially just.

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The School of Ecology: Life After Oil

The maiden session of Health of Mother Earth Foundation's School of Ecology with the theme Life after Oil held on 30-31July 2018 at the organisation’s head office in Benin City, Nigeria. Life after Oil is aimed at challenging the mindset of people towards dependence on extractives and especially on the concept of energy and development based on fossil fuels. Participants learned that development is possible without harming our planet and we that economic wellbeing and progress can be achieved through respectful use of the gifts of Nature. A key focus of the school was that humans must reconnect to Nature and that a good way to do that is the platform of re-source democracy. The school particularly aimed at shifting the focus of Nigeria from fossil fuels resources and to building a vision of life beyond oil

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Bad Plastic Idea

The themes for this year’s World Environment Day and World Ocean Day are centered on beating plastic pollution and thus serve as a wakeup call for all of us to take prompt actions to protect our environment and by extension our lives.

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