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Artist Gallery: Lisolomzi Pikoli

Lisolomzi Pikoli is a visual artist from South Africa. His work aims to interpret the mechanics of the modern world and our inherited wisdom through the human figure and its relationship to line, shape, form, movement, and time. The main disciplines in his artistic practice are painting, illustration, design, installation, and public art. Pikoli created […]

Artist Gallery: Dudu Coelho

Born and raised in Mozambique, Dudu Coelho has lived and worked in Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and South Africa for the past four decades. His professional background combines experience in volunteering; community-based development; project management; graphic design and desktop publishing; editing, production and dissemination of information, publications and educational materials; capacity building and practical training in the […]

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 […]

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. […]

ACB’s artist’ gallery – a celebration of artistic contributions

Over the years, a diverse range of artists and graphic designers have illustrated and designed the covers and content pages of our publications and our factsheets, and collaborated on the design of our logo and brand identity, as reflected on our website and communications collateral. To honour their contributions to the ACB, we’ve collated some […]

The decline of FISPs in Malawi – debt, corruption and hunger

What future for smallholder farmers and realising agroecology?

Is Zambia’s food system collapsing? 

Zambia’s collapsed food system: never-ending debt, climate shocks, biodiversity loss and FISPs – the indispensability of transitioning to agroecology In this briefing, we look at how Zambia is facing a gathering food crisis of serious proportions. Amidst repeated droughts and floods, energy rationing, and shortages of drinkable water, food prices are rising and millions are at risk […]

Annual report for 2023 celebrates ACB’s 20th anniversary

2023 was a special year for the ACB, as it marked the twentieth anniversary since our organisation came into being, initially in response to the emergence of genetically modified organisms and the attendant biosafety issues in food and agriculture.  As the organisation grew, our focus broadened to include a host of interconnected issues affecting food […]

ACB’s legacy podcast: celebrating 20 years of resistance against GMOs in Africa

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 […]

Expansion of gene drive mosquito projects in Africa  

International and national biosafety regulations are urgently needed, including the right to say no By Sabrina Masinjila, African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) research and advocacy officer Masinjila can be seen making a statement on behalf of the Convention of Biological Diversity Alliance (CBDA), calling for Parties to support the ongoing work of the Multidisciplinary Ad […]