Principal Investigator

Dr. Jikun Huang

Contact Address: No. 699 Binhu Road, Fangzi District, Weifang, Shandong, China

Email: jikun.huang@pku-iaas.edu.cn

Education

1987-1990, PhD in Agricultural Economics, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines

1980-1984, BS in Agricultural Economics, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210014, China

Working Experience

Jun. 2021 - to date

Senior PI, and Director of Rural Revitalization Strategy Research Center

Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, China

Dec. 2015 - to date

Professor, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University

Director à Honorary Director, China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Peking University

Director, New Rural Development Institute, Peking University

Vice-president, Jiangxi Agricultural University (April 2018-April 2020)

Oct. 2000 - Dec. 2015

Director of CCAP, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS);

Professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS

Oct. 1995 - Oct. 2000

Director and Founder of CCAP, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing

Professor, Institute of Agricultural Economics, CAAS

Sept. 1994 - Sept. 1995

Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C., USA

August - September, 1994

Visiting Scholar, Stanford University

Nov. 1992 - Aug. 1994

Professor and Department Head, Agri. Econ. Dept., China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI), Hangzhou, China

Oct. 1990 - Oct. 1992

Post-Doctor Research Fellow, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Banos, Philippines

Apr. 1987 - Oct. 1990

Graduate Fellow, IRRI, Philippines

Dec. 1985 - Feb. 1986

Collaborative Research Scholar, IRRI

Jul. 1984 - Apr. 1987

Research Assistant, CNRRI, Hangzhou, China

Research Interests

l Agricultural development and policy

l Food security and trade

l Rural development and policy

Selected Publications

Huang’s publications cover a wide range of issues on agricultural and rural development. He has published more than 610 journal papers by May 2023, of which 344 are published in refereed international journals. Additionally, he has co-authored 24 books and made substantial contributions to the academic community by providing over 70 chapters in English books and more than 40 chapters in Chinese books. The following are some representative publications:

Huang, Jikun, 2022. China’s rural transformation and policies: Past experience and future directions, Engineering, 18(2022):21-26.

Huang, Jikun, Lynnette M. Neufeld, Ousmane Badiane, Patrick Caron and Lisa S. Forsse, 2022. Equitable livelihoods must underpin food systems transformation, Nature Food, Vol. 3, June 2022: 394-396.

Kang, Nannan, Lingling Hou, Jikun Huang*, Huifang Liu, 2022. Ecosystem services valuation in China: a meta-analysis, Science of  the Total Environment. 21 Oct(2022): 151122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151122.

Chen, Qiu,Jikun Huang, Alisher Mirzabaev, 2022. Does fuel price subsidy work? Household energy transition under imperfect labor market in rural China, Energy Economics, 107 (2022) 105845.

Liu, Huifang, Lingling Hou, Nannan Kang, Zhibiao Nan, Jikun Huang*, 2022. A meta-regression analysis of the economic value of grassland ecosystem services in China, Ecological Indicators, 138 (2022) 108793.

Lin, Wensheng, Jikun Huang*, 2021. Impacts of Agricultural Incentive Policies on Land Rental Prices: New Evidence from China, Food Policy, 2021.10, 104 (2021): 11-102125.

Li, Li, Ruocheng Hu, Jikun Huang, Matthias Bürgi, Ziyun Zhu, Jia Zhong and Zhi Lü, 2020. A farmland biodiversity strategy is needed for China, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Vol. 4, No.6 (2020): 772-774.

Sheng, Yu, Yuhan Zhao, Qian Zhang, Wanlu Dong, Jikun Huang*, 2022. Boosting rural labor off-farm employment through urban expansion in China, World Development, 151 (2022) 105727.

Hou, Lingling, Fang Xia, Qihui Chen,Jikun Huang, Yong He, Nathan Rose, Scott Rozelle, 2021. Grassland ecological compensation policy in China: improves grassland quality and increases herders' income, Nature Communications, (2021) 12:4683. | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24942-8.

Sheng, Yu, Jiping Ding, Jikun Huang*, 2019.  The Relationship between farm size and productivity in agriculture: evidence from maize production in Northern China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2019. 101(3): 790-806. 

Huang, Jikun, Ke Zhou, Wei Zhang, Xiangzheng Deng, Wopke van der Werf, Yanhui Lu, Kongming Wu, Mark Rosegrant, 2018. Uncovering the economic value of natural enemies and true costs of chemical insecticides to cotton farmers in China, Environmental Research Letters, 2018. 13: 064027.

Huang, Jikun, Pengfei Shi. Regional rural and structural transformations and Farmer's income in the past four decades in China, China Agricultural Economic Review, 2021, 13(2): 278-301.

Huang, Jikun, Scott Rozelle, Xinkai Zhu, Shiji Zhao, Yu Sheng, 2020. Agricultural and rural development in China during the past four decades: an introduction, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2020, 64(1): 1-13.

Hu, Yuanning,Jikun Huang*, Lingling Hou. 2019. Impacts of the grassland ecological compensation policy on household livestock production in China: an empirical study in Inner Mongolia, Ecological Economics, 2019, 161: 248-256.

Zhang, Wei, Yanhui Lu, Wopke Werf van der, Jikun Huang, Feng Wu, Ke Zhou et al. 2018. County-level analysis of the effects of land use, Bt cotton, and weather on cotton pests in China, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018, 115: E7700-E7709.

Huang, Jikun, Guolei Yang, 2017. Understanding recent challenges and new food policy in China, Global Food Security, 2017, 12: 119-126.

Huang, Jikun, Shukun Wang, Zhihua Xiao, 2017. Rising herbicide use and its driving forces in China, European Journal of Development Research, 2017, 29(3): 614-627.

Huang, Jikun, Jiping Ding. 2016. Institutional innovation and policy support to facilitate small-scale farming transformation in China, Agricultural Economics, 47: 227-237.

Huang, Jikun, Yangjie Wang, Jinxia Wang, 2015. Farmers’ adaptation to extreme weather events through farm management and its impacts on the mean and risk of rice yield in China, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 97: 602-617.

Deiningger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, Fand Xia, Jikun Huang, 2014. Moving off the farm: land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China, World Development, 59:505-520.

Huang, Jikun,Ruijian Chen, Fangbin Qiao, Honghua Su, and Kongming Wu, Does expression of Bt toxin matter in farmer's pesticide use? Plant Biotechnology Journal, 12(2014): 399–401.

Liu, Elaine, Jikun Huang. 2013. Risk preferences and pesticide use by cotton farmers in China, Journal of Development Economics, 103: 202-215.

Hu, Ruifa Hu, Xiaobing Wang, Jikun Huang and Jinyang Cai. 2013. Patents and China’s research and development in agricultural biotechnology, Nature Biotechnology, Vol. 31 No. 11(2013): 986-988.

Huang, Jikun, Jun Yang, Siwa Msangi, Scott Rozelle, Alfons Weersink. 2012. Biofuels and the poor: global impact pathways of biofuels on agricultural markets, Food Policy, 37: 439-451.

Huang, Jikun, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle and Carl Pray. 2005. Insect-resistant GM rice in farmer fields: assessing productivity and health effects in China, Science, 308: 688-690.

Huang, Jikun, Ruifa Hu, Hans van Meijl, Frank van Tongeren. 2004. Biotechnology boosts to crop productivity in China: trade and welfare implications, Journal of Development Economics, 75: 27-54.

Huang, Jikun, Scott Rozelle, Carl Pray, Qinfang Wang. 2002 Plant biotechnology in China, Science, 295:674-677.

Huang, Jikun, Scott Rozelle, Carl Pray. 2002. Enhancing the crops to feed the poor, Nature, 418: 678-684.

Huang, Jikun, Scott Rozelle. 1996. Technological Change: The re-discovery of the engine of productivity growth in China's rural economy, Journal of Development Economics, 49: 337-369.

Huang, Jikun and Scott Rozelle. 1995. Environmental stress and grain yields in China, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 77 (1995): 853-864.

Huang, Jikun, Cristina c. David, and Bart Duff. 1991. Rice in Asia: Is it becoming an inferior good? Comment, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73 (1991): 515-521.

Representative Books

Huang, Jikun, Jimin Wang, Xu Liu, 2023. Modern Agricultural Transformation and Trend of Food Supply and Demand in China, Science Press, 2023, Beijing (in Chinese), 266pp.

Ashok Gulati, Yuan Zhou, Jikun Huang, Alon Tal, Ritika Juneja, Form Food Scarcity to Surplus: Innovations in Indian, Chinese and Israeli Agriculture, Published by Singapore Pte Ltd, 2021, 401pp.

Huang, Jikun, Wei Xie, 2019. Policy Research on Supply and Demand of Agricultural Commodities and Food Security in China, Science Press, 2019, Beijing (in Chinese), 460pp.

Huang, Jikun, Ran Tao, Zhigang Xu,Mingxin Liu and Scott Rozelle, 2011. China’s Agricultural and Rural Development (1978-2008), Cengage Learning Asia Pte. Led, 2011,380 pp.

Huang, Jikun, Ruifa Hu, Ruijian Chen, Jianwei Mi, Scott Rozelle and Carl Pray. 2010. Economics of Genetically Modified Biotechnology - 10 Year’s Development of Bt Cotton in China, Science Press, 2010, Beijing (in Chinese), 207 pp.

Huang, Jikun and Scott Rozelle. 1998. China’s Grain Economy toward the 21st Century. China’s Agricultural Press, Beijing (in Chinese), 276pp.

Patents

Huang Jikun. Analysis and prediction model of agricultural policy in China[CAPSiM], Certificate No. BJ 37771, May 10, 2012, No. 00115973, National Copyright Administration, PRC

Honorables and Awards

Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars of the Ministry of Education, 2017

Fellow of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) (2016)

Honorary Life Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) (2015)

Fellow, World Academy of Sciences TWAS - for the advancement of science in developing countries (2013)

Centennial Anniversary Distinguished Alumnus Award, College of Economics and Management, University of the Philippines (UPLB), 2019

Award for Fudan Outstanding Achievement in Management Science in China, 2008

Award for Outstanding Scientific Progress (Third Prize) on Early Warning System Study on Grain and Food Security, the Ministry of Agriculture of China, 2007

National Outstanding Scientist Certificate, the State Council of China, 2007

Winner of the 5th Prizes for Young Scientists of China (top 10 Youth Scientists), PRC, 2002

Award for Innovation Team Grant, National Natural Science Foundation of China Committee (NSFC), 2001

Award for Outstanding Scientific Progress (Second Prize) on Agricultural R&D Policy Study, the Ministry of Agriculture of China, 1999

Receiver of National Outstanding Youths Foundation, NSFC, 1997

Sun Yefang’s Economic Prize (the highest economist award in China, given every 3 years), 1997

Award for Outstanding Scientific Progress (Second Prize) on China’s Food Policy Study, the Ministry of Agriculture of China, 1996

Award for Outstanding Scientific Progress (Third Prize) on Zhejiang’s Seed Supply and Support System, Zhejiang Science and Technology Commission, 1996

Award for Outstanding Scientific Progress (Third Prize) on China’s Crop Regionalization, the State Agricultural Regional Planning Commission and Ministry of Agriculture, 1991