Challenges and Opportunities for the Sustainability Transition in Global Trade (Introduction)
本期特刊探讨了推动农业生产和国际贸易向更可持续方向转变的挑战与机遇，重点分析了私人自愿可持续标准（如第三方认证、企业行为准则）的快速增长及其作用，这些标准已覆盖全球40%的咖啡、25%的可可和15%的棕榈油生产。
In this special issue, we explore the challenges and opportunities arising with respect to normative goals of shifting production and international trade in agriculture towards greater sustainability. Private voluntary sustainability standards have experienced substantial growth in various global markets, reaching 40% of global coffee production, 25% of cocoa, and 15% of palm oil1. Given the rapid expansion of private standards, whether third-party certifications, corporate codes of conduct (Vermeulen 2010), or ‘newer’ regulatory approaches such as multi-stakeholder initiatives, public-private partnerships, and efforts to develop new sustainable business models, it is important to consider what such approaches offer. All of these approaches are seeking to contribute, at differing levels of ambition, towards a sustainability transition.