by Nnimmo | Aug 5, 2021 | Alternatives, Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Culture, Development alternatives, Dirty Energy, Environment, Food, Governance, Militarism
Climate change and variability in Nigeria is starkly illustrated in the northern and southern regions of Nigeria by desertification and coastal erosion respectively. This is so because attention is often focussed on these phenomena in the North and in the South. The...
by Nnimmo | Jul 27, 2021 | Alternatives, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Culture, Development alternatives, Dirty Energy, Environment, Poetry, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth, Stories
The vital place of the narrative strategy is in awakening memories and building consciousness for action. Over the past months we have experienced an evolving of our understanding of critical storytelling. We have seen the overturning of...
by Nnimmo | Jul 12, 2021 | Biosafety, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Food, Governance, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
Food and nutrition are key to human health. We strive to ensure that we have nutritious foods and that the seeds from which we produce these foods are free from contamination and do not pose a threat to our biodiversity. It is a fact that biodiversity is key to food...
by Nnimmo | Jun 14, 2021 | Alternatives, Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Culture, Development alternatives, Dirty Energy, Environment, Governance, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
The quest for profit in a predatory economic system has made it possible for humans to wilfully ignore extractivist crimes unfolding in broad daylight. A clear case is the clawing into Namibia’s Okavango Basin in search of hydrocarbon resources by ReconAfrica, a...
by Nnimmo | Jun 10, 2021 | Alternatives, Analysis, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Culture, Development alternatives, Dirty Energy, Environment, Food
Before the onslaught of six decades of unrelenting oil pollution, there was an abundance of fish species in both freshwater and marine ecosystems of the Niger Delta. Today, many of these fish species are endangered due to constant pollution and some are already going...
by Nnimmo | May 11, 2021 | Biosafety, Corporate Capture, Culture, Food, Governance, Policy
Research has shown that although there are many policies around aspects of agriculture in Nigeria, there is no organizing policy that ties everything together. Officials work on silos and sometimes actively protect their turfs and appear not to care about the systemic...
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