Managing Gum Arabic for Sustainable Development, Prof. Allam Ahmed
Professor Allam Ahmed
Founding President, World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD)
Queen Mary University of London
London
United Kingdom
ORCID: 0000-0002-1494-354X
Paper Type: Editorial
Received: 15 July 2025 / Revised: 17 July 2025 / Accepted: 18 July 2025 / Published: 22 July 2025
DOI: 10.47556/J.IJGA.1.1-2.2025.1
WELCOME to the inaugural issue of the World Association for Sustainable Development’s (WASD) flagship journal fully dedicated to Gum Arabic, the International Journal of Gum Arabic (IJGA).
IJGA is the first international, multidisciplinary, refereed journal aiming to promote top quality international research, ideas and information about Gum Arabic across the world. IJGA will focus on all you need to know about “Gum Arabic” particularly issues relating to Trade, Food Security, and Sustainable Development (SD).
The journal will explore the international trade aspects, food security, economic, social and environmental challenges relating to Gum Arabic, with particular emphasis on the significant challenges and opportunities for major producing countries such as Sudan.
IJGA aims to consider new perspectives about Gum Arabic research and, for the first time, puts together original and cutting-edge contributions aimed at illuminating and charting new directions for researching, teaching and understanding this extremely rare and important commodity.
It is intended that IJGA benefits ordinary people, students, academics, professionals, researchers, policy-makers, businesses, etc., from both Sudan and the rest of the world with the best available scientific evidence, to enable better understanding of the different opportunities and challenges facing the production and trade of Gum Arabic.
Keywords: Sudan; Gum Arabic; Food Security; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development Goals; SDGs.
Citation: Ahmed, A. (2025): Manging Gum Arabic for Sustainable Development. International Journal of Gum Arabic (IJGA), Vol. 1, No. 1/2, pp. 1-6
