Outputs

Publications

• Taking the wheel: Steering Africa through the risks and opportunities of maritime decarbonisation. Richmond Boakye Dankwah and Liz May (2026).
• Impact of geopolitical dynamics on global trade: the case of the African automotives sector. ODI Global. (2025)
• How Africa Eats: Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks LSE Press (2025)
• Research Handbook on Trade Law and Development. Chpt 18: Implementing the AfCFTA: A sluggish start. David Luke and Max Mendez-Parra. (2025)
• Trade and Climate Sustainability Briefs 2025 (with the Africa Climate Foundation)
• How Africa-Europe Trade Arrangements Can Harmonize, Not Collide. David Luke Chapter 5 in David McNair ed., Why Europe Needs Africa (Carnegie Endowment, 2024).
• Unfinished Business on Voluntary Carbon Markets – A New Frontier for Trade Cooperation. David Luke and Cecilia Wandiga in Reviving Multilateralism – From Vision to Action on Trade and Sustainability at the WTO (Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs, 2024).
• Maria Ogbugo, David Luke, Faten Aggad, Oluwasola Omoju, William Davis. Navigating climate action: Assessing the economic impacts and trade-offs of a shipping carbon tax for African states. (2024)
• Aggad, F., Luke, D., Macleod, J., Omojo, O., Guepie, G., Ven, C. (2023). Implications for African Countries of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in the EU.
• Luke, D. (2023). Submission to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero addressing carbon leakage risk to support decarbonisation.
• Luke, D. eds. (2023). How Africa Trades.
• LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa White Paper on African Sustainable Industrialisation: The Imperative of Upgrading Industrial Policymaking Itself.
• Women, Peace, and Security and the African Continental Free Trade Area: Consolidating the Nexus.Masters, L., van Wyk, J., Mthembu, P.South African Foreign Policy Review Volume 4: Ramaphosa and a New Dawn for South African Foreign Policy (2022).
• UK trade approach towards developing countries: policy submission to the UK Parliamentary Enquiry Committee (March 2022).

Blogs

• Why is food insecurity worsening in Africa? (2025) LSE Review of Books
• Red lines for Africa’s green new deal. The African Report. David Luke (2024)
• Minéraux critiques: trois questions stratégiques pour les pays Africains (Critical Minerals: three strategic issues for African countries). L’Afrique des Idées. David Luke (2024).
• Why African countries struggle to exercise their agency in the World Trade Organization. Colette Van der Ven & David Luke. (May 2023).
• Five Reasons Why Agro-Industrialisation is Essential for Africa’s Sustainable Economic Transformation. David Luke & E. Olawale Ogunkola. (January 2023).
• Breathing Life Into the AfCFTA: Why the details matter.Jamie MacLeod & David Luke. (March 2022).
• The European Union is undermining prospects for a free trade agreement with Africa. David Luke, Melaku Desta & Simon Mevel (December 2021).
• The impact of COVID-19 on trade in Africa. David Luke & Jamie MacLeod (December 2021).
• Why trade matters for African development. David Luke (July 2020).

Media

• Interview: Understanding African trade is key to helping its development. (Professor David Luke).
• Interview: ‘Africa can achieve more if it will speak with one voice‘. (Professor David Luke).
• Podcast: Informal Exchange: Informal Cross Border Trade... Policy? (featuring Professor David Luke).
• Video: Informal Cross Border Trade and Policy(Professor David Luke & the International Trade Centre).