AJFNS Volume 2 No. 2 July 2002
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
As
a Kenyan, little have I known how this area of study is of great importance,
especially in this era in which many Africans are malnourished due to poverty
and lack of information on food security and nutrition. The ideas and views
shared in the AJFNS have, for one, encouraged a lot. I have been refueled
and transported to a destination of open-mindedness and ideologies, which
have always remained remote and in the background of my and many people's
minds, especially the ones like me who serve in the everbusy Police Force
of Kenya and even other sectors.
In my opinion, it is an understatement for the Editor's note that AJFNS is just but a "crawling baby", I second Joseph Mutuku's comment from the students' corner, with his astounding confidence on the quality and keen scrutiny the journal was subjected to. The views shared in your Vol.2 No 1 authentically become a great medicine to an already ailing African community at large. The crawling baby journal turns out to be a baby with a difference as soon as you turn over the pages! As I write, my attention is immediately drawn to Dr. Hans Schoeneberger's and Thoralf Schulze's contributions published in the March 2002 issue, which expounded on sustainability of resources and the most likely negative effects of Germany's New Agrarian policy on developing countries, measures of which, if taken, would ensure a non-discriminatory setting at the global level.
Many other contributors on policies and research in this journal inject hope for developments around the world and particularly my continent, Africa. AJFNS is really an exponent collection of professional ideas and views on food security and nutrition from across and beyond the boundaries of Africa. An admirable journal, a quality journal full of ideologies which are operational with practical methods quite applicable in our African continent as we strive to eradicate poverty.
I
believe this journal will soon fly to the top of the list of African journals
that not only broaden and open up avenues, but amongst those that will make
things happen on the field of nutrition, food security and poverty reduction
in the continent. Fellow readers, let us not just go through these flavored
constructive ideas and views shared in the AJFNS but instead consistently
put into practice the ideologies; and lift the drooping eye lids of the African
people, majority of whom languish in poverty.
As an officer involved in crime prevention, I see light at the end of the
tunnel and a strong connection of fighting crime in Africa as we fight poverty
in unity, and uplift the poor and poverty stricken lot. I hardly see criminals
in a well fed African people: instead I see a rejuvenation of our failing
and falling agricultural sector, a conversion of African countries en masse
into a tourist destination, as security improves. In essence, a stable economy
in Africa at large as emphasis is laid on this crucial field of nutrition
and food security.
We all need to embrace the field of Food Science and Nutrition regardless of where we are and what we do.
Michael Owuor
Nairobi Area P.P
C & I Section
P.O. Box 30051,Nairobi
Email: owuorke@yahoo.com