The Solar for Internally Displaced Persons Camp (Solar for IDPs Camp) initiative of GIFSEP; (Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem) is aimed at powering all IDP Camps in Nigeria with Solar. Since its inception in 2018, we have been able to light up 1000 households in Internally Displaced Persons camps in the North Eastern
The growing media needed to grow a crop has varied to date. Planting on land was done by our ancestors and still is to date but in the face of food insecurity and climate change, other ways have been introduced. Hydroponics is promoted as a new way of planting that does not use soil. Planting
Trees for Homes Initiative involves the planting of fruit and indigenous trees in the home depending on the available space. The presence of food and indigenous trees in one’s home has lots of benefit to both the homeowner and the environment at large. Here are a few of the benefits one can expect from having
Alarmed by a potential rise in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic, which could push millions of people into acute hunger, we must therefore collectively act now not just with our brains but with our hands to mitigate the impact of food shortages and hunger. It is against this backdrop that GIFSEP is introducing Home
The postponement of COP26 has provided us the opportunity to learn from the corona virus pandemic experience to revise our NDC’s, increase our ambitions and climate finance for resilience building. Covid 19 is a wake-up call for climate action and reminds us of the importance of the fight for our health, livelihoods, and planet. COVID
Mike David Terungwa, Head of GIFSEP, is pleased to announce that in March 2020 his team will start the first project in Nigeria to empower communities to work with The Manatee as they face an uncertain future stronger, together. We shall work with communities along the Benue River and tributaries in Benue State, adopting The
Statistics have shown that the most vulnerable group in the global climate crisis are women and children.
Climate change has become a worrisome catastrophe accounting for extreme weather conditions globally as such threatening the existence of biodiversity and invoking natural disaster. Recently there was a reported incident of forest fire which occurred at the amazon forest, this is one out of several other disasters that have been caused as a result of
As part of our Solar for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) initiative, Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) with support from the Policy Centre for the New South, Morroco, lights up additional 100 IDPs households in Maiduguri-Borno State. The Solar for IDPs camp is an initiative of GIFSEP which commenced in the year
Our Executive Director Mr David Michael Terungwa participated in the UN 68TH Civil Society Conference which took place in Salt lake City Utah USA. The conference, which met under the theme, “Building Inclusive and Sustainable Cities and Communities” drew registrants from some 130 countries, with an estimated 40 percent of participants aged 23 and younger.