by Nnimmo | Jun 8, 2020 | Analysis, Culture, Development alternatives, Environment, Food, Governance, Policy
Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems in the the Gulf of Guinea and the Congo Basin face a lot of challenges and this year’s World Oceans Day offers us a good anchor for reflection. The theme of this year’s World Oceans Day is Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean....
by Nnimmo | Mar 23, 2020 | Alternatives, Analysis, Biosafety, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Food, Governance, Policy
Technofixes and the State of Our Biosafety. A time like this demands and permits only sober consideration of where we are coming from, where we are and where we are heading to. The world is virtually shut down due to the ravages of a virus. This is no time for...
by Nnimmo | Feb 13, 2020 | Analysis, Climate Change, Environment, Food, Militarism, Stories
The desert locust storms hitting East Africa indicate unfolding horrors. They are also a metaphor for other terrors on the continent. Pictures of swarms of locusts, crawling, flying, mating and stripping greenery in the East and Horn of Africa region appear like...
by Nnimmo | Feb 6, 2020 | Biosafety, Environment, Food, Policy
The announcement of the nomination of the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Agnes Kalibata, as the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General to the 2021 UN Food Summit is very troubling. It is not a shock because of the person of...
by Nnimmo | Jan 23, 2020 | Analysis, Biosafety, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Food, Governance, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
The tide of GMOs and deadly herbicides creeps on unsuspected consumers as they are literally being ambushed in the night. Twenty countries, including Togo and Malawi, have placed a ban on the use of glyphosate containing herbicides based on health and environmental...
by Nnimmo | Jan 2, 2020 | Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Food, Policy
2019 was a year of extreme weather events spread across the world. Sweltering heat hit much of the world. Raging wildfires were recorded in Brazil, Bolivia, Australia and the United States of America. Massive floods ravaged even cities like Venice, famed to be able to...
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