This legacy series provides an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the past two decades of ACB’s advocacy and activism, with a particular focus on resisting the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into our agricultural and food systems in Africa. 

Our first podcast in the series is hosted by ACB Research and Advocacy Officer Sabrina Masinjila, and features our Executive Director and founder, Mariam Mayet and Haidee Swanby, who worked for ACB for a decade. 

Don’t miss this intimate recounting of the early years, as civil society scrambled to understand emerging genetic engineering technologies and their risks, and the resistance that followed their introduction. 

Haidee and Mariam (on the left) at a meeting in the early years of ACB

Do look out for our second podcast in the coming weeks, where we will hone in on the fight to have GMOs regulated, with a deeper dive into our engagement in the international arena and the drafting of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Cartagena Biosafety Protocol, as we continue to look back on our legacy of two decades of activism.

For a series of ACB factsheets that explain what GMOs are and why we oppose their entry into our agricultural and food systems, please click here.

Music Credit: Afro Impulse by Viljami Mehto. Art piece by Vanessa Black, from our archive.