The Equal Trade Academic Alliance serves as a collaborative platform where scholars from Africa, Europe, America, and Asia come together to champion the equitable distribution of wealth across commodity value chains through the adoption of Equal Trade Certification into national trade policies. Academic research plays a crucial role in supporting awareness campaigns, advocating for policy changes, employing effective lobbying strategies, and offering recommendations for reforming national, regional, and global trade agreements and treaties related to international trade and economic development. Central to the mission of the Global Equal Trade Academic Alliance is its focus on analyzing both the upstream and downstream facets of production chains, which offer an objective lens through which to observe the disparities in financial resources between Africa and Europe. However, it's important to recognize that production chains are not isolated systems; rather, they operate within a broader institutional environment shaped by intergovernmental and supranational organizations such as the World Bank or the EU. These institutional frameworks contribute to the socio-economic asymmetries inherent in global trade and economic development paradigms.