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China’s low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCPP) plays a crucial role in reducing carbon pollution and promoting green development. It stimulates enterprises’ green innovation (GI), such as through the promotion of circular carbon technologies and energy-efficient practices. However, a negative trend has emerged, wherein enterprises are increasingly focusing on low-end innovation to secure subsidies or comply with regulatory requirements.

Agricultural transformation is vital to sustainable development, allowing food security to be reconciled with environmental sustainability. However, the complex interplay between agricultural modernization and environmental systems, particularly the role of economic drivers, remains insufficiently understood.

This paper investigates price transmission on the potato market of a small producing country, namely Lithuania, and the influence of the neighbouring main producing country (Poland) on the price setting over the period of 2017–2023. The research framework includes the following coherent and interconnected steps that allow to investigate relationships between potato prices: unit root tests, the Toda-Yamamoto test, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) modelling and the Bounds test for the co-integration, the Error Correction Term (ECT) estimation applying the ARDL Error Correction Regression. The Toda-Yamamoto test demonstrates a bidirectional movement between producer and retail prices on the Lithuanian potato market, while, in Poland, the price setting moves from producer to retailer. Bounds tests confirm the presence of the long run relationships for vertical and horizontal potato price transmission of the small producing country.

Global governance and agricultural trade are undergoing a substantial transformation driven by geopolitical shifts, declining multilateralism and the rise of economic sanctions. This editorial synthesises contributions from a collection of invited works that examine the impacts of these changes on trade systems, food security and value chains. The collection explores how the shift from multilateralism to regionalism, the spread of sanctions and evolving governance frameworks influence agricultural trade and policy outcomes.

Global agri-food trade is undergoing profound structural change, driven by escalating geopolitical tensions, climate-related shocks, and evolving market dynamics. Agri-food trade has become central to food security, shaping access and availability across diverse regions. Recent trends indicate a modest resurgence in agricultural trade as a share of total global trade and a growing regionalisation of trade flows.

Technical measures aimed at environmental protection are increasing both in number and scope. However, their effects on trade are challenging to identify due to their qualitative nature and the broad range of requirements they encompass. We integrate existing data on environmental measures and apply recent advancements in gravity model methodology to assess the full extent of their effects. We use national trade flows to account for the border effects of environmental measures. Our analysis demonstrates that environmental measures tend to restrict trade.

The present paper explores the current state of knowledge about the agricultural economic resilience phenomenon. By applying a comprehensive and multifaceted literature review approach the emerging research fields in the area, current level of the operationalization of the agricultural economic resilience notion and challenges in the measurement of the agricultural economic resilience are discussed.

This research explores the interplay between the services the Metaverse industry provides, including brand gamification, Metaverse marketing factors (novelty, interactivity, Influencer), and their impact on brand advocacy and loyalty among Generation Z within the sports industry. Employing a quantitative approach, the researchers collected data from 384 participants. The findings reveal significant positive relationships between brand gamification and Metaverse novelty and interactivity. The outcomes of Metaverse devices exhibited that consumers developed a strong affinity for specific brands due to the influence of social media influencers. In addition, the vibrant and dynamic realm of the Metaverse has generated a wave of positive brand sentiment among individuals.

To achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, China must efficiently allocate initial carbon emissions and energy quotas in the power sector. However, prior studies have primarily focused on quota allocation within individual markets and ignored the market development stages. This paper proposes an Energy-Quota and Carbon-Quota Allocation Model (ECAM) that combines an equitable allocation scheme with an efficient allocation scheme based on zerosum gain data envelopment analysis (ZSG-DEA) through the entropy weight method.

Greenhushing, the downplaying of sustainability communications, undermines trust because transparency is crucial for shaping consumer choices. We investigate how greenhushing manifests in services and why organizations carefully promote sustainability. By analyzing the online content and sustainability ratings of 300 hotels, we identify widespread greenhushing, especially among less sustainable hotels.