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Yearly Archives: 2018

Industry infiltration dominates debate as tobacco treaty talks begin

Nigeria and 180 other countries meeting in Geneva, Switzerland for the Eighth Conference of the Parties (COP8) of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention...

GMOs: Groups commit to increased awareness, frown at regulatory process

The Health of Mother earth Foundation (HOMEF) and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) have pledged to work with the media to...

Buhari laments climate change impacts, shrinking Lake Chad

President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented the effects of climate change as well as shrinking of the Lake Chad on the nation. The president made this...

Group flays plans to authorise test for GM mosquitoes in Mali

COPAGEN Mali, a member organisation of the West African Global Convergence for Land, Water and Seeds, is frowning at an apparent plan by the...

Wetlands disappearing three times faster than forests, warns report

Wetlands, believed to be the most economically valuable and among the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, are disappearing three times faster than forests...

UN passes resolution adopting peasant rights declaration

Seventeen years of long and arduous negotiations later, peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from having a...

Concern over India’s impending ODF status

As India gets ready to mark the Mahatma’s 150th birth anniversary this year with celebrations about the nation’s impending open defecation free ODF status, a...

IPCC commences meeting to consider 1.5 degrees report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) opened a meeting on Monday, October 1, 2018 to consider its Special Report on “Global Warming of 1.5...

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Stakeholders cushion climate change impact with clean cooking technologies 

Stakeholders have stepped up efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change through sensitisation and demonstration of clean cooking...
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Young advocate empowers corp members with climate literacy skills

Young climate advocate, Tolulope Gbenro, in partnership with Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative (BBYDI), organised a corp climate literacy...

Aid cuts push 1.2m in Northeast Nigeria deeper into hunger, WFP warns

The World Food Programme (WFP) says aid cuts have pushed at least 1.2 million people in Northeast Nigeria deeper...

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Stakeholders cushion climate change impact with clean cooking technologies 

Stakeholders have stepped up efforts to mitigate the effects...

Young advocate empowers corp members with climate literacy skills

Young climate advocate, Tolulope Gbenro, in partnership with Brain...
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