Foreword

AJFAND GOES PLACES

I welcome you to issue No. 11 Vol.6 No2 2006 of AJFAND. AJFAND entered into collaboration with University of Toronto 's Bioline International and through Dr. Leslie Chan, they are able to track the hits on AJFAND website ( www.ajfand.net )

I am happy to share with you the trend between April and August 2006.

Usage statistics-April, May, June, July and August 2006

The tracking is independently done and will, we hope, become refined as we go along so we can at least identify the source of a hit. More importantly, we hope to get the journal indexed. This can only happen if we sustain production of a quality journal which is accessed by many of you. So we are relying a lot on you and our friends, for visits to the website, suggestions on how we can improve, identification of funding sources, offers to review and sending in manuscripts.

Funding continues to be a challenge. I have to sustain a team of 6 people to concentrate on the journal on a more or less full time basis. Reviewers are just as important as authors. We do not pay our reviewers but we continue to profile and give visibility to those who have been faithful to us.

Please write to me if you can serve as a reviewer. Many of our reviewers have become elevated professionally in the course of being associated with us and that makes us proud. We would like to share your good news of professional elevation with others.

So my appeal is towards more financial support and more offers to review.

We thank our authors for their patience. Sometimes it takes long for a manuscript to be published.

Please bear with us. As we streamline our process, we hope to try and catch up with the backlog of manuscripts, and also speedup the whole process.

Below is the list of manuscripts in this issue:

•  Impact of micro-enterprises on health and nutritional status of children in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Malawi – Abdi-Khalil Edris

•  Iron and zinc contents and their availability in cereal flours fortified with micronutrients at small scale milling machines in Tanzania: as affected by phytate and iron binding phenolic compounds – Towo Elifatio et al

•  Utilization of Indigenous/Traditional Food Plants in Uganda : A Case Study of South-Western Uganda – Kiremire Bernard et al

•  Factors influencing Breastfeeding Practices in Edo State , Nigeria – Salami Lilian

•  Chemical Evaluation of Winged Beans ( Psophocarpus tetragonolobus ), Pitanga Cherries ( Eugenia uniflora ) and Orchid Fruit ( Monodora myristica )
– Adebayo OT et al

•  Effects of guava consumption on total antioxidant & lipid profile in normal male growth
– Rahmat Asmah et al

•  Process Development, Nutrition and Sensory Characteristics of Spiced-Smoked and Sun-Dried Dagaa ( Rastrineobola Argentea ) from Lake Victoria , Tanzania
– Bille Peter

•  Extraction and qualitative assessment of African sweet orange seed oil
– Ofoegbu Obinna et al

•  Microbiological Studies of Cockroaches trapped from three localities in Gaborone , Botswana – Mpuchane Sisai et al

•  Dietary and Nutrition Screening for Children Seeking Curative Care in Health Facilities in Botswana – Maria Nnyepi

For this issue, we acknowledge the financial support of Nestle Foundation, Monsanto Company and the Nutrition Third World (NTW, Belgium). Also please look up the announcement on our website regarding the

Enjoy the reading.

Ruth Oniang'o
Editor-in-Chief

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Prof. Ruth K. Oniang'o, PhD
Founder, Rural Outreach Program (ROP) www.ropkenya.org
AND Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND)
Formerly: African Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences (AJFNS)
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