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Foreword – Diego Vazquez-Brust and Joseph Sarkis: Foreword Editorial – Regina Frei, Sherwat Ibrahim and Temidayo Akenroye Part 1: Background and motivation – Why do global buyers engage in GVCs with Africa? 1. Sustainable practices of African big firms in Global Value Chain – April Bai and Matthew Quayson 2. Sustainability for Global Value Chains: A bibliometric review on African based studies – Jamal elBaz, Saadia Iddik and Fedwa Jebli 3. Embodied land resources trade in major African countries: A global trade and supply chains perspective – Joseph Sarkis and Xu Tian (Mini) 4. Risk assessment for global buyers in GVCs with Africa – Lanre Jawando Part 2: Why do African suppliers engage in GVCs? 5. Maatian Philosophical Perspective of Sustainability – David B. Zoogah 6. Adoption of Supplier Codes of Conduct through the lens of Innovation Diffusion Theory – Johannes Heller 7. Practical insights to developing sustainability conscientious African Firms – Ekpen Owie 8. Exploring the barriers to adoption of sustainable agriculture practices in the process of coffee farming: implications for global value chain – Temidayo Akenroye 9. 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? 10. Assessing Lean readiness in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment in Sudan – Mohammed Hassan Sayed and Alfatih H. Ismail 11. The buyers’ response to bridge the gap across markets: a case of exporting agricultural products from Nigeria – Frank Ojadi 12. Sustainability in Ethiopian Textile Supply Chains – Marcus Brandenburg, Berihun Bizuneh, Taame Berhanu and Ambachew Maru Woubou 13. Handcraft Export business in Ghana – Audrey Forson Part 4: How do global buyers engage in GVCs with Africa? 14. 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 15. Governance mechanisms and Sustainability compliance in Egypt Food Chains – Yasmine Elhenawy 16. Danish-Nigerian dairy supply chains – Natalie Heinisch 17. 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
