ABN co-publishes report the Biofuels - A Failure for Africa, Dec 2010

The Biodiversity Media Alliance cover the story, December 2010

Pambazuka share the report, 6th December, 2010

ABN speaks out against Channel 4 polemic documentary

The African Biodiversity Network recently joined a coalition of southern organisations to speak out against polemic documentary What the Green Movement Got Wrong, aired on UK Television on 4th November. The documentary was pro-GM and made accusations against the green movement for preventing GM crops in Africa. ABN partners co-penned a letter to channel 4 complaining about the lack of southern voices on the documentary and stating the ABN’s position on GM and the devastating affects it would have on Africa. Read the sign on letter here and coverage below:

The Independent, 6th November 2010
Greens angered over C4 claims they ‘caused starvation’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/greens-angered-over-c4-cl...

The Guardian, 5th November 2010
C4’s What the Green Movement Got Wrong: Environmentalists Respond
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/nov/04/c4-what-green-mov...

GM Watch, 5th November
What African Farmers Got Right
http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1264...

ABN partner the Mupo Foundation supports the Venda people as they fight for their Sacred Sites

Earlier this year ABN partner the Mupo Foundation found itself in the middle of a critical battle to protect the sacred sites of the Venda community in South Africa. Just months after the ABN and Gaia Foundation had co-ordinated an eco-cultural mapping process with the community, their research became fundamental to a fight to protect their sacred Phiphidi waterfall from destruction from tourist chalets. Read the coverage below.

BBC World News Online, 2nd August 2010
Battle to save South Africa's 'sacred sites' from tourist chalets
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10793664

South Africa Sunday Times, 27 June 2010
Resort built on old sacred site infuriates Venda elders
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article522099.ece/Resort-built-on-old-s...

City Press, South Africa, 4th July 2010
Royal Battle Set for Court, by Don Pinnock
http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/News/Royal-battle-set-for-court-2...

Times Live, South Africa, 8th July 2010
Court Bars Chief from Building
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article540840.ece/Court-bars-chief-from...

Pambazuka, 8th July 2010
Indigenous Community Fight Against Destruction of Sacred Site
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/rights/65820/print

Sacred Land, 22nd June 2010
Bulldozers Move in on South African Sacred Site
http://www.sacredland.org/bulldozers-move-in-on-south-african-sacred-site/

Other coverage featuring the ABN and our partners:

Pambazuka, 7th October 2010
ABN Advocacy Coordinator Anne Maina asks ‘Is Seed Recuperation Possible?’ as she visits the village of Kathalumbi in Kenya. The article was featured as part of a special Pambazuka Issue: New technologies and the threat to sovereignty in Africa
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/67531

Pambazuka, 6th October 2010
ABN and international partner Grain feature in the article Biotechnology and Dispossessions in Kenya, featured in the Pambazuka issue referenced above.
http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/67509

BBC World News Online, 14th October 2010
In Pictures - South Africa’s ‘Women of Power’
ABN partner Mphatheleine Makalule and the traditional Makhadzhi rainmakers of Venda are pictured in this photostory fro the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10866997

BBC World News Online, 2nd September 2010
In Pictures – The Making of Shea Butter
ABN partner RAINS works with communities in Ghana to revive traditional knowledge and practices for working with the land. Here the women of Zoosali make shea butter from shea nuts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10935094

BBC World News Online, 2nd August 2010
Battle to save South Africa's 'sacred sites' from tourist chalets
Read about the threats being posed to South Africa’s Sacred Sites by tourism development. ABN partner the Mupo Foundation is supporting the Venda people to stand up to these threats.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10793664

All Africa.com, 4th May 2010
What will the continent export if it leases farmland to Arabs?
ABN advocacy officer Anne Maina on the huge threats that land grabbing and foreign investment pose to Africa’s food sovereignty.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201005031735.html

Pambazuka, 29th April 2010
We will not stand for the grab for our land
ABN’s Anne Maina and Teresa Anderson speak out against the growing threat of landgrabbing across Africa.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/64066

The Ecologist, 16th November 2009
Million Belay: Ethiopia Doesn’t need or want Bill Gates
ABN Board member and director of Melca Mahiber in Ethiopia, Million Belay talks to the Ecologist about real solutions to the challenges facing Africa.
http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/363414/million_belay_ethiopia_doe...

The Ecologist, 23rd November 2009
Gathuru Mburu: Kenya has already had a Green Revolution
ABN Director and Founder of the Institute for Culture & Ecology in Kenya is interviewed by The Ecologist about Africa’s true ‘Green Revolution’
http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/368061/gathuru_mburu_kenya_has_al...