Africa and Sustainable Global Value Chains

Dr Regina Frei is a Chartered Engineer and Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK. She leads the Product Returns Research Group. Her research interests include sustainable business, sustainable value chains, reverse supply chains, product returns in retail, plastics recycling, and the Circular Economy. She is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Friend of the African Circular Economy Network (ACEN).    Dr Sherwat E. Ibrahim is an Associate Professor of Operations Management and Director of the MBA programs at the School of Business, American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt. Her research interests include Africa sustainability, global value chains, supply chain governance, strategic outsourcing, and technology adoption. She is a council member of the International Forum on Sustainable Value Chains (ISVC) and a founding member of PRME Africa Chapter.  Dr Temidayo Akenroye is a Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.  His research interests cover circular economy, sustainable procurement, agricultural value chain, health supply chain and international logistics. He is a Member of the Board of Directors (Trustees) at Agritech and Social Innovation Hub, Nigeria, and sits on the Research Advisory Panel for Africa Resource Centre, South Africa.

• Part 1: Background and motivation - Why do global buyers engage in GVCs with Africa?. Chapter1. Sustainable practices of African big firms in Global Value Chain (April Bai and Matthew Quayson).- Chapter2. Sustainability for Global Value Chains: A bibliometric review on African based studies (Jamal elBaz, Saadia Iddik and Fedwa Jebli).- Chapter3. Embodied land resources trade in major African countries: A global trade and supply chains perspective ( Joseph Sarkis and Xu Tian (Mini)).- Chapter4. Risk assessment for global buyers in GVCs with Africa (Lanre Jawando).- Part 2:  Why do African suppliers engage in GVCs?. Chapter5. Maatian Philosophical Perspective of Sustainability ( David B. Zoogah).- Chapter6.  Adoption of Supplier Codes of Conduct through the lens of Innovation Diffusion Theory ( Johannes Heller).- Chapter7. Practical insights to developing sustainability conscientious African Firms (Ekpen Owie).- Chapter8. Exploring the barriers to adoption of sustainable agriculture practices in the process of coffee farming: implications for global value chain ( Temidayo Akenroye).- Chapter9.  An explorative study of the extent to which multinational buyer firms’ sustainability requirements include/exclude Zambian Contractors and suppliers ( Progress Choongo, Christine Chanda Nakamba, Peter Lubosi Simasiku).- Part 3:  How do African suppliers engage in GVCs?. Chapter10.        Assessing Lean readiness in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment in Sudan ( Mohammed Hassan Sayed and Alfatih H. Ismail).- Chapter11. The buyers’ response to bridge the gap across markets: a case of exporting agricultural products from Nigeria ( Frank Ojadi).- Chapter12. Sustainability in Ethiopian Textile Supply Chains (Marcus Brandenburg, Berihun Bizuneh, Taame Berhanu and Ambachew Maru Woubou).- Chapter13. Handcraft Export business in Ghana ( Audrey Forson).- Part 4:  How do global buyers engage in GVCs with Africa?. Chapter14.  The Impact of EPA on West Africa: The mediating role of an intra-African Trade Policy for Africa’s sustainable growth in the Global Value Chain (Peter Adjei-Bamfo, Emmanuel Lartey, Bernard Odoi, Stephanie Adjei-Bamfo and Emmanuel Baiden).- Chapter15. Governance mechanisms and Sustainability compliance in Egypt Food Chains (Yasmine Elhenawy).- Chapter16. Danish-Nigerian dairy supply chains -(Natalie Heinisch).- Chapter17. Re-imagining corporate sustainability in sub-saharan Africa: Evidence from the maize supply chain of a leading Nigerian commodities business (Lanre Jawando).- Conclusion - Regina Frei, Sherwat Ibrahim and Temidayo Akenroye.

“Africa and Sustainable Global Value Chains has many merits. … it offers many distinct approaches to and perspectives on GVCs and sustainability in Africa. The inroads built by it are informative. They have the potential to inspire future research on the topic.” (Sören Scholvin, Africa Spectrum, November 4, 2022)