Tag: #HOMEF
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NIGER DELTA ACTIVISTS DEMAND CLEAR DEADLINE TO END GAS FLARING IN NIGERIA’S PETROLEUM INDUSTRY ACT
Environmentalists, civil society groups, and community reps from Niger Delta have stepped up calls for the Federal Government to urgently review Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) with a focus on setting an official deadline to stop gas flaring. This demand was a key outcome from the Climate Justice Assembly held in Benin City, led by…
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NGO WARNS AGAINST GMOS IN NIGERIA’S FARMING, CALLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO FOOD INSECURITY
The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) says bringing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) into Nigerian farming is not the answer to the country’s food insecurity. Speaking at a hands-on agro-ecology training in Bakassi, HOMEF’s Joyce Brown stressed that GMOs threaten Nigeria’s food sovereignty since farmers can’t save or reuse GMO seeds and would become dependent…
