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Gari: Nigeria engages further in forest conservation and green development

Nigeria, Cross River State and the United Nations sign Nigeria’s UN-REDD National Programme, with an innovative two-track approach, and gear up to implement it,...

Nigerian group, others picked as UN-REDD CSO observers

The NGO Coalition for Environment (NGOCE), an environmental network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs) with over 45 members based in Nigeria, has...

‘Place forests under local control to increase incomes and sustainability’

To increase the incomes of many of the billion forest-dependent people worldwide the current model for investment in forests must be turned on its...

Global leaders converge on Arusha for AGRF 2012

Tanzania will host the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF)) from  September 26 to 28, 2012, the country’s Minister of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives, Christopher...

Group, communities move to curb deforestation

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has decried the alarming rate of deforestation caused by the charcoal business in Ekiti State, even...

Document finalised, $4m REDD+ programme implementation to commence

The implementation of the Nigeria REDD+ Readiness Programme has received the go-ahead, following a recent stakeholder-wide reassessment of the plan in Abuja. Having previously undergone...

African nations accused of undermining food sovereignty

African governments have been accused of being complacent about the “covert” activities of the biotechnology industry to undermine food sovereignty on the continent. According to...

States urged to embrace REDD

National Coordinator, the Nigeria Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD ) Programme, Salisu Dahiru, has called on state governments in Nigeria to embrace...

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Fruit waste can power homes, says group

The Founder, Foundation for a Better Environment (FABE), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), on Monday, April 29, 2024, said that...
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Stakeholders canvass stringent policy against deforestation

The Vice-Chancellor, Bayero University Kano (BUK), Prof. Sagir Abbas, has urged government at all levels to come up with...

Saudi Arabia, UNEP launch World Environment Day campaigns to combat desertification

World Environment Day (WED) 2024 host, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have...

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Fruit waste can power homes, says group

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