Disseminating African Food and Nutritional Information through Open Access Publishing

African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) is an Open Access, scientific, peer reviewed, scholarly journal with a global reach, published in Kenya since 2001.AJFAND was founded in 2001 by Hon. Prof. Ruth Oniang’o who is the Editor-in-Chief, to provide an avenue for publishing scholarly works by African scholars and others who share an interest in topics related to food and nutrition security, agriculture and development; and also to give visibility to budding academics in Africa. AJFAND has been published by African Science Communications Trust (ASSCAT) since the year 2009. The goal of AJFAND is to provide a platform through which food and nutrition issues and information concerning Africa, and its unique problems can be effectively disseminated and addressed. The journal also provides an avenue for sharing information on national, regional and international-level food and nutrition programs. AJFAND is accessible online and fully Open Access. AJFAND is archived by CABI (London), disseminated by EBSCO Publishing (select articles), indexed by DOAJ and CAS and co-hosted by AJOL. Journal articles are also accessible though the African Union Library intranet, University of Botswana Library intranet, University of Zimbabwe Library intranet and Cornell University Robert R. Mann Library through TEEAL. The journal is quality assured by The University of Toronto through Bioline International since 2006.