The Journal also accepts "short communications" dealing with original results not warranting publication as full papers, book reviews and has an advertisement section.

This journal is a part of African Crop Science Society (ACSS), which is for investigators, producers, business people and technicians around the world.

The ACSS was established in 1993 with overall goal of promoting crop production and food security in the continent of Africa.

The society meets once every two years, 1993 in Kampala, Uganda; in 1995 Blantyre, Malawi; in 1997 Pretoria, South Africa; in 1999 Casablanca, Morocco, in 2001 Lagos, Nigeria; in 2003 Nairobi, Kenya; in 2005 Entebbe, Uganda, in 2007 El-Minia, Egypt, in 2009 Cape Town, South Africa, and will meet in 2011 in Maputo, Mozambique.

The goal of the conferences are to promote the active exchange of crop sciences information, innovation, and new ideas and usually attended by experts of the highest caliber, distinguished keynote speakers, ministers of irrigation, higher education, agriculture, environment and eminent scientists from Africa and the four corners of the globe.. At the 8th ACSS conference held in El-Minia, Egypt, 27–31 October 2007, more than 400 of high quality papers and 10 plenary, as well as, 12 keynote lectures, in different fields, have been presented orally or poster.