HOMEF, CSOs Reject Transgenic cassava application from IITA
The plans to take total control of Nigeria’s food system is moving rapidly on the genetically engineered organisms (GMO) highway. The list of GMOs being pushed in Nigeria includes beans, maize and cotton. Recently the In…
The Petroleum “Host Community” Bill
The premise of the Petroleum Host Community Development Bill, 2016, is the pursuit of development of Petroleum “Host Communities” using the vehicle of the Petroleum Community Trust. The Bill ignores the fact …
FishNet Wisdom at Makoko
FishNet Wisdom: Fish not Oil. There must be a time when we sit back to reflect on the things we take for granted in order to avoid being taken by surprise when such things disappear. No one bothers to answer a question …
Catholic Medical practitioners Caution on GMOs
This post is the EnviroNews report on the outcome of a recent scientific conference hosted by Catholic medical practitioners recently in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. You can also read the entire communique here: 2017 ACMP Com…
FishNet Dialogue At Okrika Waterfront
FishNet Conversations. True change can come from below. Change can begin from below. True change must come from below. Just as it is the root system that makes a tree stand, so it is with changes that must last. We have …
A Hard Superhighway to Travel
A Hard Superhighway to Travel. The Superhighway project has been controversial from the day it was first announced publicly for many reasons. First, it was routed without regard to the negative impacts it would have on t…
Food Security in the Niger Delta
Food Security in the Niger Delta can best be examined using the classic rule of thumb of the right to food and the right to be free from hunger. This basically requires that we approach the subject from the premise that …
Yaoundé by bus
Yaoundé by bus. The station of Touristique Express SA at Douala is a well organised affair. When I arrived there at 7:45am that morning I found that the staff were at their duty posts and, were, well, very dutiful. My si…
We are no GMO Guinea Pigs
We are not Guinea Pigs. Unjust, unsafe, unsustainable. These are the three key words that can be used to describe food systems based on genetic engineering and other chemical based agricultural systems that seek to pollu…
Forests: Connecting People to Nature
FOREST TOWN HALL RESOLUTIONS: What Nature has connected, let no person or government put asunder Health of Mother Earth Foundation held a Forest Town Hall Meeting on Monday – June 5, 2017 in commemoration of World Enviro…
Unpacking Re-Source Democracy
Interrogating Re-Source Democracy. Progress has been measured by how much humans are able to transform Nature and increasingly this has been seen to be directly related to how exploitative of Nature and how…
Resilience, Resistance
Building a Resilient and Ecologically Engaged Citizenry. Cross River State is generally seen as a green state, with some of the last tracts of pristine rain forests – some of which have been preserved through community f…
Women, Re-sources, Peace and Matters Arising
Although women are rarely those that trigger wars and the arms race, they are often the victims and bear the brunt of the harms that occur during the conflicts. Each International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarma…
In the Shadows of the Future (Poem)
In the Shadows of the Future In a hide-away in Rustlers Valley Lodged where the EarthRises to meet the mountains Drawn by the call of caves and waterfalls Enraptured by the pull of ancestral footsteps Sucked into the sil…
Break Monsanto and Bayer’s Unholy Wedlock
Breaking the Unholy Wedlock between Monsanto and Bayer.The quest for profit in the agro-chemical sector is being pursued through the power game of colonisation of seeds and farming systems. Monocultures literally operate…
