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30 October 2024

Artist Gallery: Helen Day

Helen (Wallace) Day is a South African-based muralist and fine artist whose work can be found both locally and internationally. She was commissioned for several paintings that featured on the covers of various ACB publications. Educated at the National School of the Arts, her style of artwork is impressionistic, always evident of bold colourful brushstrokes […]

23 October 2024

Artist Gallery: Vanessa Black

Drawing, painting and photography have been life-long interests of Vanessa Black; as a way to make sense of the world but also to share delight in its beauty. Black added depth to the ACB’s advocacy through her extensive artwork on an earlier iteration of our website, as well as illustrating the covers of several publications. […]

18 June 2021

Wandile Sihlobo’s technocratic support for GM and related technology misses the mark

Southern African civil society responds to false claims about benefits to food and nutrition security The African Centre of Biodiversity joins a collective of civil society organisations to endorse Glen Ashton’s calling out of chief economist of AgBiz, Wandile Sihlobo, on his May articles in Business Day and Project Syndicate, which promote the continued use […]

20 June 2020

Stephen Greenberg’s departure from the ACB at the end of June 2020

Sadly, at the end of June, the ACB’s senior researcher Stephen Greenberg is departing from the ACB. In a joint letter by executive director Mariam Mayet and Stephen, they reflect on their journey together. We are writing together, Mariam and Stephen. We have found ourselves walking the same path for a number of years now, […]