Professor in Practice & Strategic Director, Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, London School of Economics & Political Science. Transforming Africa through Trade.
🔄 How can process shape policy results?
In the 🆕 Trade & Sustainability Review, @DavidLukeTrade & Hana AlWakeel note that there’s no “golden template” but offer a starting point to rethink industrial strategies’ design, implementation & monitoring.
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Our very own Professor @DavidLukeTrade has contributed to the latest LSE Research for the World reading list on the future of world trade, with two Africa-focused recommendations.
Read here: https://t.co/0O0wOQvpOb
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📚 The latest #Trade & #Sustainability Review looks beyond manufacturing to examine how #IndustrialPolicy is shaping service-led economies, digitalization, agriculture, least-developed countries & policy-making processes.
🇬🇧 Read it here: https://t.co/h81PVePOCO
BREAKING NEWS: The #G20 Africa Expert Panel consists of leaders from various industries worldwide. This panel focuses on growth, debt and development opportunities for a new African partnerships.
This is who our panelists are.
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Participants from civil society, trade unions, media, and industry called for coordinated action to remove trade barriers, strengthen AfCFTA frameworks, and ensure fair food systems.
Africa’s future depends on bold choices that turn potential into prosperity. 🌾
#FoodSecurity
Prof. Luke draws a powerful link between Africa’s food systems, climate change, and trade policy — exposing how weak regional integration and poor governance have normalized hunger.
He argues that policy reform must put food sovereignty and economic justice at the center.
Africa must confront the paradox of abundance: a continent rich in agricultural potential, yet unable to feed itself.
In Lagos, @FESNigeria hosted the presentation of How Africa Eats by @DavidLukeTrade powerful reflection on food systems, trade, & climate justice across Africa
Link agriculture with industrialization to drive jobs, exports & lasting food security. 🌾
At @TradeInvestNG, Amb. Nuru Abba Rimi commended Prof @DavidLukeTrade#HowAfricaEats for its insights on trade, food security & climate risks.
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The National Union of Agriculture and Applied Employees (NUAAE) highlighted the crucial role that farmers and agricultural workers play in sustaining the continent, as well as the significant challenges they encounter.
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🌍 Over 280M Africans face malnourishment & 340M live with food insecurity.
In the forum on “How Africa Eats: Trade, Food Security & Climate Risks,” Prof. @DavidLukeTrade and NUAAE called for stronger researcher–farmer collaboration to build resilient, sustainable food systems.
Key Summit Highlights
Trade is Africa’s Plan A. There is no Plan B.
At the #UGDevSummit2025, Prof. David Luke (LSE) highlighted how trade flows drive Africa’s development - bringing ideas, technology, jobs, competitiveness, and investment.
Despite global turbulence, Africa shows resilience:
+12.4% intra-African trade growth (2023–2024, Afreximbank) to USD 220.3B +8.5% intra-African trade growth in 2024 (UN), vs. just 0.4% in exports to the rest of the world.
Africa’s rising middle class is fueling demand, but reliance on imports and fragmented EU trade regimes remain barriers to integration.
Trade must remain central to Africa’s transformation and prosperity.
🎙️ How can #Africa leverage demographics, #trade, & strategic resources to reshape its economic future?
🌍 In this episode, @DavidLukeTrade, professor and Director of the @AfricaAtLSE, unpacks Africa’s economic potential and its evolving relationship with #Europe. He discusses how demographics, trade asymmetries, and the #AfricanUnion’s agenda intersect with industrialization and strategic resource use to shape the continent’s growth trajectory.
🔗 Tune in now: https://t.co/vOb2gmH68m