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25 November 2024
Greenhouse gas emissions in the South African food system: Integrated and transformative response...
Climate change is set to wreak havoc on South Africa (SA)’s agri-food system. Increasing temperatures, lower and more erratic rainfall, and more extreme weather events will characterise the climate in Southern Africa over the next decades. This poses challenges for food production and food security. At the same time, SA’s agri-food system is one of […]
22 November 2024
Petition – Reckless endangerment: Hold South African government and chemical industry to account ...
Ban Terbufos with immediate effect, institute mechanisms for banning all highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) within three months Please click here to sign on. Please spread the word by sharing this petition with others: https://t2m.io/PesticideTribunal_BanTerbufos (Klik hier om in Afrikaans te lees.) 22 November 2024 To: South Africans have been alarmed to learn of multiple instances of children […]
20 November 2024
Artist Gallery: Linzi Lewis
Linzi Lewis was born and bred in Johannesburg. She has been deeply influenced by this vibrant, dynamic city, having dedicated many years walking, cycling, and traversing its streets, learning its rhythm and movements. She is an applied and political ecologist, geographer and environmental scientist, social justice activist, agroecologist, designer, dancer, choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and aspiring […]
12 November 2024
Artist Gallery: Vicky-Lee Vermeulen
Vicky-Lee Vermeulen’s journey as an artist began in the grocery aisle, where she would meticulously arrange items by colour — even at a young age her inner designer was hard at work! Fast forward 15 years and that passion has blossomed into a fulfilling career as a graphic designer. We appreciate the vibrant style Vermeulen […]
7 November 2024
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 […]
5 November 2024
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 […]
4 November 2024
Les subventions néfastes, la dette et le financement de la biodiversité en Afrique
Des pistes pour une transition juste en préparation de la COP 16 et au-delà (Click here to read in English.) La cible 18 du cadre mondial pour la biodiversité de la Convention sur la diversité biologique préconise l’élimination, la suppression progressive ou la réforme des subventions néfastes pour l’environnement et la société, ainsi que l’augmentation […]
1 November 2024
Civil society coalition says: Heads must roll for Terbufos regulatory failure
Press release: South African People’s Tribunal on Agrotoxins 31 October 2024 A coalition of civil society organisations and trade unions working together to expose the harmful reality of pesticides in South Africa mourns the tragic deaths of six children — Monica Sebetwana, Ida Maama, Isago Mabote, Njabulo Msimanga, Katlego Olifant, and Karabo Rampou — in […]
30 October 2024
International Farmer Seeds Gathering 2024
ACB executive director Mariam Mayet and research and advocacy officer Sabrina Masinjila recently participated in the fourth edition of the International Farmer Seeds Gathering, this year held in Antibes, France. Co-organised by Reseau Semences Paysannes, SOL and the Maison des Semences Maralpines in collaboration with the European network Let’s Liberate Diversity!, the gathering was a […]
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 […]