Removing barriers to the movement of food accross borders

Abstract

Always when I receive the announcement of a new issue of AJFAND, I immediately read the editorial and then look up the articles that are of interest to me or I feel should have the interest of colleagues, whom I subsequently alert about it. AJFAND is certainly a journal of high quality and many of the articles are not only of interest to Africa. When invited to write a guest editorial, about a topic of my choice, logically I accepted, but I had no clue yet about the subject of the editorial. If I write an article, I feel it should have contents that matter and will help at least a few readers a little ahead in their endeavours. As the highest priority of my activities is with the Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) whose goal it is to achieve consensus on the science of food regulations and legislation to ensure global availability of safe and wholesome food products for all consumers, I felt I should focus on the availability of safe food in Africa, remembering the many famines in several parts of Africa in the past decades