African Journal of Farm Association Management (AJFAM)

Editorial Policy About the Journal A new professional peer reviewed journal “African Journal of Farm and Agribusiness Management (AJFAM)” was launched in 2014 by African Farm Management Association (AFMA) and is published by Moi University Press. The journal is published bi-annually online, with an annual print volume for subscribers. The purpose of the new journal is to provide an international forum and source of reference for those working in agricultural management and related activities, including social, economic and environmental aspects of food production and rural development in Africa.

Objectives

  1. To survey and report agricultural business management in its widest sense, including the application of existing and innovative methodologies to the analysis of production, marketing and agricultural merchandising throughout the whole supply chain, and the diverse use of agricultural resources to support and supplement rural household income and the rural economy in Africa.
  2. To encourage the transfer of agricultural management principles across geographical, cultural, social and national boundaries, to the benefit of rural populations in Africa.
  3. To report developing pressures on agricultural and rural resources around Africa; the challenges arising from those pressures; and the consequent opportunities for managers of Agri-based industries.

What we offer contributors

For academic writers, AJFAM:

Offers a fast turn–round from submission to publication;

  • Guarantees an influential audience (combining the readerships of AFMA and IFMA subscribers as well as attracting new subscribers), with a particular interest to applied researchers;
  • Provides an attractive vehicle to early-career researchers who are daunted by the competition to publish in high-impact journals.
  • Gives an excellent opportunity for publication in an English-language publication, in a field that is under-represented in many parts of the world.
  • Helps to meet requirements for a comprehensive dissemination process in African and other publicly-funded projects, and cope with the rising emphasis on demonstrating ‘impact’ in judgments of research quality assessment, with the mixed readership of the Journal providing an ideal audience.

 

For professionals such as consultants and advisers, a major incentive will be the opportunity to reach a wide audience and to highlight (indirectly) their own services or that of their employers. Those involved in research and rural development projects will find the Journal valuable in meeting their dissemination requirements. In some cases, it will be possible to reprint articles originally written for house magazines or conferences.

 

Editorial Board

In the first instance AJFAM will be run by an editorial team comprising Prof. Mark Odhiambo (Moi University, Kenya) as Editor, with Prof. Philip Nyangweso (Moi University, Kenya; Deputy Editor). The editorial team will be supported by a proposed Editorial Board of around 10 persons.

 

  1. David Jakinda Otieno, University of Nairobi, Kenya
  2. Dr Grace O. Evbuomwan, Augustine University, Lagos State, Nigeria
  3. Justus Ochieng, World Food Programme
  4. Prof Michel Aliber, University of Fort Hare, South Africa
  5. Lelethu Mdoda, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
  6. Patience Mlongo Mshenga, Egerton University, Kenya
  7. Rose Nyikal, University of Nairobi, Kenya
  8. Usman Haruna, Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State, Nigeria
  9. Walter Akuno, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Kenya
  10. Willy Marcel Ndayitwayeko, University of Burundi