For society to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the agri-food industry needs a substantial sustainability transition toward food systems capable of delivering greater volumes of nutritious food, while simultaneously lowering the environmental footprint. This issue of AHV focuses on the big picture—on mechanisms of sustainability transition, from social innovation, to models of finance and institutional systems, and calls for business and agricultural researchers to transform the sector together. Contributors to this issue embrace a transdisciplinary outlook, including scientific, technical, social and political dimensions of agroecology. This issue is a call to action: to encourage the community of social entrepreneurs, ecosystem players and researchers to contribute analytical methods, experiences and scientific insights on emerging social innovations related to food, agriculture and rural–urban transformation.

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大流行背景下的可持续性转型：社会创新和系统影响的重点问题简介

为了社会实现可持续发展目标，农业食品行业需要向能够提供更多营养食品的食品系统进行实质性的可持续转型，同时降低环境足迹。本期 AHV 关注全局——从社会创新到金融和制度体系模型的可持续性转型机制，并呼吁商业和农业研究人员共同改造该行业。这个问题的贡献者接受了跨学科的观点，包括农业生态学的科学、技术、社会和政治层面。本期呼吁采取行动：鼓励社会企业家、生态系统参与者和研究人员社区贡献分析方法，