Call for Articles: Upcoming ACNS Issues, 2009

The African Crops & Seed Systems News Service (ACNS) Team invites you to disseminate your research findings and other information through its upcoming issues of the ACNS Newsletter. From November 2008, ACNS has been running short issues on a weekly basis under the banner "ACNS Weekly Update". We are delighted to inform you that the newsletter is now a world leading source of information on improvement of African crops, such that:

• the newsletter now reaches over 30,000 subscribers in research, development and business across the globe

• it is listed and cited by over 300 websites

• over 85 leading news agencies including TV, radio, newspapers, internet and e-journals and magazines source and publicize information from the newsletter. 

• ACNS is listed in the leading internet search engines and scientific directories including Google, Yahoo, Excite, Live, Searchtorpedo, MSN, AskJeeves, Google Scholar, Scirus, SciSeek and many more.

The newsletter covers:

• research breakthroughs in improvement of African crops and seed systems by researchers, research centres and networks

• announcements for meetings, grants, scholarships, publications, training, websites, etc

• breaking news on African crops from the media across the globe

• brief profiles for research projects, departments, organizations, websites and researchers 

Send your article, announcement, photos, new publication, website or profile to the editor using the address below.  To reduce the size of images for email/internet transmission we have created a simple user guide (see below) to help you. It is also available at http://www.africancrops.net/processimage/technologytips.htm.

Kindly send your information and inquiries to:

The Manager

Africancrops.net Website

c/o FORMAT

P.O. Box 79 - 00621 Nairobi, Kenya

Email