Professor, Min Liu.  Email address: Minliu@lzu.edu.cn 

Research interests:

        Information and communication technologies; Rural e-commerce; Social-ecological systems; Policy evaluation; Land tenure; Land use and investment; Grassland degradation; Livestock production; Rural household livelihoods; Rural transformation; etc.

Education：

        2012.10-2017.01   Ph.D., Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

        2010.09-2012.07   M.A., Agricultural Economics and Management, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China

        2006.09-2010.07   B.A., Tourism Management, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China

Working experience:

2019.06-until now Professor in Lanzhou University.

2017.07-2019.06   Postdoc in China Center for Agricultural Policy, Peking University, Beijing, China.

2017.11-2019.06   Regional specialist in Asian Development Bank, based at Beijing, China.

2016.10-2017.01   Consultant in Development Research Group of the World Bank, Washington D.C., the United States, working on Land Tenure Insecurity and Land Investment of Ghana with Klaus Deininger.

2017.01-2017.03    Teaching assistant in Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Research skills: Stata

Awards:

1. Sponsorship for overseas PhD training sponsored by the Chinese Scholarship Council, China, 2012-2016.

2. Junior Researcher Grant from Wageningen School of Social Sciences(WASS), 2016, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

3. Best conference paper award, 2018, “The development of rural e-commerce in China – an empirical analysis based on the development of Taobao Villages”, CAER-IFPRI annual international conference, China. 

Publications：

1. Min Liu, Qian Zhang, Song Gao, Jikun Huang*. (2020). The spatial aggregation of rural e-commerce in China: An empirical investigation into Taobao Villages. Journal of Rural Studies.

2. Min Liu, Liesbeth Dries, Wim Heijman, Xueqin Zhu, Jikun Huang*. (2017). How does land tenure reform impact upon pastoral livestock production? An empirical study for Inner Mongolia, China. China Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2017.09.009

3. Min Liu, Liesbeth Dries, Wim Heijman, Jikun Huang*, Xueqin Zhu, Xiangzheng Deng. (2019). Land tenure reform and grassland degradation in Inner Mongolia, China. Forthcoming in China Economic Review.

4. Min Liu, Jikun Huang*, Liesbeth Dries, Wim Heijman, Xueqin Zhu, Yuanning Hu, Haibin Chen. (2017). The impact of Ecological Construction Programs on grassland conservation in the pastoral areas of China. Land Degradation and Development, 29：326–336. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2692

5. Min Liu, Liesbeth Dries, Jikun Huang, Shi Min, Jianjun Tang*. (2019). The impacts of the eco-environmental policy on grassland degradation and livestock production in Inner Mongolia, China: An empirical analysis based on the simultaneous equation model. Land Use Policy, 88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104167 

6. Shi Min, Xiaobing Wang*, Min Liu, Jikun Huang. (2018). The Asymmetric Response of Farmers to the Expected Change of Rubber Price：the Roles of Sunk Cost and Path Dependency. Land Use Policy, 79：585-594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.09.006.

7. Min Liu*, Wim Heijman, Xueqin Zhu, Liesbeth Dries, Jikun Huang. (2016). Individual and Social Optima of Rural Land Allocation by Stakeholders： A Case Study on Eco-fragile Areas of Northern China. The Rangeland Journal, 38： 57-72. https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ15069

8. Min Liu*. (2017). China’s grassland policies and the Inner Mongolia grassland system. Monograph (Ph.D dissertation). https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/512511 

9. Shi Min, Min Liu, Jikun Huang*. (2020). Does the application of ICTs facilitate rural economic transformation in China? Empirical evidence from the use of smartphones among farmers. Journal of Asian Economics, 70, 101219.

10. Wanglin Ma*, Xiaoshi, Zhou, Min Liu. (2019). What drives farmers’ willingness to adopt e-commerce in rural China? The role of internet use. Agribusiness (Accepted).

Main project reports：

1. Jikun Huang, Huayong Zhi, Min Liu, Shi Min. (2017). The Uses of ICT in Agriculture and E-commerce in Rural China：the Evidences from Village and Rural Household Surveys. Submitted to World Bank.

2. Jikun Huang, Min Liu, Song Gao. (2018). The application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Rural China. Submitted to The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Asian Development Bank.

3. Jikun Huang, Min Liu, Song Gao. (2018). The Emergence of Agri-food E-commerce Sector：the Evidences from Rural Household Surveys. Submitted to The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Asian Development Bank.

Main seminars：

1. The impact of Ecological Construction Programs on grassland conservation in the pastoral areas of China. Lunch seminar at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Italy. (2016.05)

2. Land tenure reform and grassland degradation in Inner Mongolia, China. Lunch seminar at the Social Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. (2017.01)

3. The development of rural e-commerce in China. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences，Beijing, China. (2018.07)

4. Do farmers earn more through e-commerce to trade their agricultural products? China Agricultural University，Beijing, China. (2019.04)

Welcome the international students who have the background of social science to apply for my master, Ph.D. and postdoctoral positions. The students who have the ability of using Stata, R, Python or GIS are preferred.