AFRICAN JOURNAL OF FOOD, AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION AND DEVELOPMENT

AJFAND
online version ISSN 1684-5378

Formerly AJFNS

 

AJFAND represents a response to an expressed need for a forum that can adequately address Africa's recurrent problems of poverty, food insecurity, non-performing economies, increasing disease threats and run-away environmental degradation. Newly emerged threats are associated with globalization that entails unfair trade at the international level, and failure by Africa to keep pace with new technologies such as information technology and biotechnology.

THERE IS HOPE FOR AFRICA. Despite the grim television pictures of starvation and human suffering, there is tremendous hope for a continent whose people are its greatest resource. Despite massive degradation and non-capitalization continuously used land, Africa remains one of the best endowed continents in terms of natural resources. Africa is a continent of great fauna and flora, a continent of great people and a continent that one finds so difficult to ignore.

This journal, is meant to create awareness of the multiplicity of challenges facing Africa, that lead to abject poverty and destitution.

This journal will strive to become the premier forum for sharing and debating information relevant and important to Africa. There is a lot of information on Africa, in Africa and by Africans but it hardly finds its way to the international arena.

Let us tell Africa's story here. We can do it!!

Hon. Prof. Ruth Oniang'o
Editor-in-Chief

 

African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) Support for the journal is courtesy of the following organizations to whom we are extremely grateful
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)	- ILSI Research Foundation
- Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA)	- Helen Keller International
- International Science & Technology Institute (ISTI) - MOST	- World Food Program (WFP)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)	- World Health Organization (WHO)
- German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)	- MONSANTO Company, USA
- ILSI International Food Biotechnology Committee	- KM Wait Foundation
- Dr. Amadu Ayebo - Indiana University, USA	- Nestlé Foundation

 

NOTICE BOARD

Dear Readers,

We wish to take this opportunity to thank you very sincerely for your support. The African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) has truly taken off. It has been well marketed and we now receive many manuscripts unsolicited.
Our intention is to produce 4 clear issues per year.Unfortunately, we are heavily constrained by lack of financial resources. As a way of keeping the journal alive, we are making a decision to request every author whose article has been fully cleared for publication to make a token contribution of US$ 100 before the article is published, starting with issue number 6, one after this. These funds can be wired into our journal account or paid by Banker's cheque. We are sorry to have to do this but there is truly no other way out. Should the situation change and we receive some sizeable financial backing, we just might adjust this decision.
You will appreciate that production of a journal is quite a tedious and costly undertaking. However, we are determined to do this for Africa. We take pride in the voluntary and selfless support rendered to the journal by our reviewers.
Thank you all of you for your support.
Editor-in-Chief and Secretariat

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