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Biosafety Law: How Nigeria is building confidence in MEAs

Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) are international legal instruments whose goals include environmental protection, which entails measures to remedy, mitigate or otherwise deal with global and/or...

admin - February 7, 2016

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Kofi Annan backs new global Fisheries Transparency Initiative

“Massive plunder” of the world’s fisheries is “destroying entire fishing communities”, Kofi Annan said on Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland at the launch of a...

admin - February 5, 2016

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Osun identifies 60 million active cocoa trees

Revenues from cocoa and other prominent farms produce in which Osun State has comparative advantages have great capacities to turn around the economy and...

admin - February 1, 2016

Agric & Biotech

Agency to partner security agencies in enforcing biosafety law

The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has approached various security agencies including the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) as well as the Nigerian Security and...

admin - January 28, 2016

Agric & Biotech

Shedding some light on genetic modification

Many may be wondering what informed the title of this piece particularly the term “genetic modification” or more appropriately “genetic engineering”. The choice is...

admin - January 4, 2016

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Ogun, Lafarge, NSIA showcase forest restoration scheme at COP21

The Ogun State Forest Landscape Restoration Project was presented on 7th December 2015 to the international community at the UN Climate Change Climate Conference...

admin - December 14, 2015

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Issues unaddressed in climate smart agriculture discourse, by Nwajiuba

Challenges related to rising temperature and farm labour, changing rainfall in a dominantly rainfed system as well as increased frequency of occurrence of extreme...

admin - December 7, 2015

Agric & Biotech

Report exposes biotech big bet to prop up fossil fuels

At the upcoming Climate summit in Paris, some governments and much of civil society will be pushing for an urgent transition away from the...

admin - November 26, 2015

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