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Shell's onshore divestment targeted at evading clean-up of oil spills, CSOs tell FG

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The CSOs, in a statement on Sunday, cautioned that Shell’s plan to move offshore is only targeted at evading the scrutiny that its onshore activities have attracted.
The coalition consists three organisations, namely Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), and the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN).
Ben van Beurden, chief executive officer of Shell, had said that
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Beurden had remarked that Shell cannot solve community problems in the Niger Delta, and added that, “that is for the Nigerian government perhaps to solve”.
In January, a Dutch court ....

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Nigeria and digitalisation of food production

Nigeria and digitalisation of food production
The Punch
Published 13 May 2021
During a stakeholders’ dialogue on Nigeria’s food system and food policy, organised by the ecological think tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, last week in Abuja, many of us came face to face with the sobering reality that our dear country lags behind in what could be described as the global balance of food power. Considering that we are one of the most populated countries in the developing world, with a massive agro-based informal sector, this is not supposed to be so.
Not only are new digital technologies changing the face of agro-production, the monolithic information and communication technologies companies are also taking over food production and distribution from the hands of the small holder farmers. As you read this, the West’s big tech companies, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft are already amassing a large chunk of the portfolio of the w ....

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PVP bill will protect Nigerian researchers, breeders, not for GMOs, AFAN replies critics

PVP bill will protect Nigerian researchers, breeders, not for GMOs, AFAN replies critics
PVP bill will protect Nigerian researchers, breeders, not for GMOs, AFAN replies critics
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The National President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Arc Kabir Ibrahim, has explained that the purpose of the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Bill is to protect indigenous plant breeders and researchers.
This explanation became necessary following calls from some quarters asking President Muhammadu Buhari to decline assent to the bill.
A group Health of Mother Earth Foundation, (HOMEF) raised concern that once the bill is signed into law by the President, farmers would be criminalised if they duplicate or share seeds registered under this law. ....

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'Plant Variety Protection Bill Will Improve Food Security'

Ugo Aliogo
The Director-General, National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC), Dr. Philip Ojo, has stated that the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Bill will provide intellectual property protection to breeders and improve food security in Nigeria.
Ojo, disclosed this during a virtual meeting organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and the National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) in collaboration with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with the theme: âExpert review of the Plant Variety Protection Bill: Significance and Constraints.â
He said the NASC and other stakeholders have helped facilitate the PVP bill which is currently awaiting Presidential assent. ....

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Plant variety protection bill will spell doom for agriculture — Expert warns

An Environmental activist and Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, (HOMEF), Nnimmo Bassey has warned against passage of Plant Variety Protection (PVT) Bill into law, saying it would spell disaster for agriculture and farming in Nigeria
The PVT, he said, “allows plant breeders to register their patent on their seeds, such that anyone who produces the seed without their assent will be criminalized, and it can get to a point where the seeds that are not registered will be barred from being used.”
Bassey, speaking during a stakeholders’ forum on food policies, said the bill, which is currently before the President, would make it a criminal offence, if any farmer duplicated or shared the seed registered under the law. ....

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