• GM Crops: Testing of Super Cassava an illegality, says ERA
    The alleged approval by the Federal Government for the Donald DanforthPlant Science Centre, United States, to conduct field-testing of a genetically modified cassava christened “Super Cassava” in Nigeria can be likened to trading away our food future to modern colonialists that hide under the cover of agricultural biotechnology, and must be halted immediately, the Environmental Rights Action
  • Friends of the Earth Africa Statement

    Statement by Friends of the Earth Africa at her Annual General Meeting held at Accra, Ghana, 7-11 July 2008
    Members of FoE Africa from Ghana, Togo, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Nigeria, Mauritius, Tunisia and Swaziland met for five days in Accra, Ghana reviewing issues that confront the African environment. A particular focus was placed on the current food crisis and agrofuels on the contin

  • From the CSD 16

    The sixteenth session of the United Nations' Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD16) kicked off yesterday at the UN headquarters in New York, USA.

    The issues being discussed are very much on the top burners of concern in the world today: agriculture, drought, desertification, land, water, sanitation and Africa.

    There is a sizable team of NGOs present at the meetings among

  • NGOs Warn On Genetically Modified Rice In Nigeria, Ghana

    Daily Independent  

    Consumers in Nigeria and the entire West African sub region may begin experiencing the health hazards associated with biotech products if the result of a laboratory test of rice samples from the countries are anything to go by, participants at a one-day public awareness forum on "Biosafety Issues and Experience Sharing" in Benin City, have warned.
    O

  • Who Benefits from GM Crops? - The Rise in Pesticide Use

    PRESS RELEASE

    New report: GM crops increase pesticide use and fail to alleviate poverty

    BRUSSELS (BELGIUM), KUALA LUMPUR (MALAYSIA), LAGOS (NIGERIA),January 13th, – Genetically Modified (GM) crops have led to a massive increase in pesticide use and have failed to increase yields or tackle world hunger and poverty, a new report by Friends of the Earth reveals tod

  • NGOs Warn On Poisoned Rice In Nigeria, Ghana

    Independent Newspapers 

    Consumers in Nigeria and the entire West African sub region may begin experiencing the health hazards associated with biotech products if the result of a laboratory test of rice samples from the countries are anything to go by, participants at a one-day public awareness forum on "Biosafety Issues and Experience Sharing" in Benin City, have warned.

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