Din Mohammed Dinu:The second goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is “Zero Hunger”, which is directly connected with global food safety and security. Other goals such as Good health and well-being, Clean water and sanitation, Responsible consumption and production, Life below water, Life on land; are more or less overlapped the food safety and security for a given nation, for example.
“In the year 2026, Bangladesh will graduate from a least developed country to a developing country and the per capita income of the country will hit $3,000. The purchasing capacity of our people is increasing and now the whole population is seeking nutritious and value-added food from the consumer market” was saying the Editor-in-Chief of Asian-Australasian Journal of Food Safety and Security (AAJFSS), Professor Dr. S. M. Lutful Kabir, a science communicator, editor and top microbiologist from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.
“Bangladesh got its independence in 1971 with the highly influential leadership of the father of the nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, while the population was 70 million. This country was affected by numerous natural calamities, including floods, cyclones, and land erosion in last past decades. However, the recent population census of Bangladesh suggested that the total population reached 165.16 million. With a limited land but doubled population compared to 1971, it’s a tough job to feed every mouth with plenty of food.” Prof. Kabir emphasized. Remaining the fixed land area, Bangladesh did a miracle job by feeding doubled population in the last few decades, which can be interpreted as a strong food security measurement by our government.
In an interview with Prof. Kabir this month, we were discussing the food security and safety of our country. He told us, “Keeping our best management of food security and safety, Bangladesh is a role model in the world, and we want to disseminate our management to the rest of the countries. Ensuring the global food safety and security mentioned by UN SDG was the primary motivation for launching AAJFSS”.
AAJFSS, one of the prestigious journals published by Ebu Press Ltd, was launched in November 2017, and from the beginning, Prof. Dr. S. M. Lutful Kabir managing this international platform as Editor-in-Chief. This journal publishes two issues per year, in May and November respectively. Single-blind peer review, open access to the reader, and a continuous publishing model is the key to the success of this journal. The EiC told us, the publishing platform is indexed by the BanglaJOL, CAB Abstracts (CABI), Crossref, Global Health (CABI), Google Scholar, and World population and food security databases.
Prof. Kabir received many awards including this year he won the Global Research Impact Recognition Award 2022 from BAURES for his contribution to the scientific research community, especially in the field of food safety. In order to improve the quality of life for those who live in the most remote areas of the earth, he underlined the need to concentrate on food security and safety.
Prof. Kabir described us, “On 15 November 2022, the world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion people, a milestone in human development. Feeding this enormous number of people might not be easy while food safety comes with security. As safe food with zero hunger is the second SDG goal.”
“AAJFSS is the platform for the international scientific community who works on the food science, food microbiology, food microbial ecology, microbial and chemical risk assessment, food hygiene, food safety, food fermentation, food process systems design and control, food packaging technology, public health nutrition, policy matters in nutrition and food safety, economic, social and technological aspects of global food security.”
A good number of international and native food scientists having doctorate degrees from recognized universities are involved with the journal as editors and with the strong leadership of Prof. Kabir, this journal published 66 scientific articles until December 2022. This journal publishes research, review, and short communication articles with the interest of food safety and security.
Practicing Committee on Publication Ethics standards is another strength of AAJFSS and Prof. Kabir urges to be indexed in prestigious Scopus and Web of Science databases within the next few years. From the beginning, Prof. Kabir adopted a rigorous peer-review policy, which led to the publication of numerous notable scientific articles in this scientific journal.
AAJFSS began using a continuous publication model on July 1, 2022, meaning that as soon as an article is prepared for publication, it will be assigned to an issue online right away rather than waiting for other articles to be completed, allowing for quicker access to the final version.
AAJFSS has a profile on Sherpa Romeo, a website that compiles and displays publisher and journal open-access policies from all over the world. The Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe System stores the Crossref metadata that is deposited for each article published in AAJFSS.
