Prof. Weimin Li 

Prof. Weimin Li  

Weimin Li , research fellow and professor with the Institute of Agricultural Economics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IAE-CAAS). Executive Vice Chairman of the China Society for International Rural Development since 1999. Observer to the International Policy Council on Agriculture, Food and Trade (IPC, Washington, D.C.) during 1994-97, and a member of the Expert Working Group under the Soft-Science Committee, Ministry of Agriculture (1994-98).

Major research field is global food security and comparative study on rural and agricultural development and policies. Coordinator or main executor of many important research projects on international comparative agriculture, including:

-         Global Food Security and China (1985-87);

-         Rural Employment, Labor Migration and Rural development in Selected Countries: A Comparative Study (1986-88);

-         Russian Agricultural Crisis and Its Implications to China (1989-94);

-         A Comparative Study on High-efficient Agriculture in Densely-populated and Land-scarce Countries (1993-95);

-         International Comparative Study on the Government Functions and Administration Models in Agriculture (1994-95);

-         China’s International Environment of Food Security in the First Three Decades of 21st Century (1996-98);

-         The Experience of Holland Agricultural Development and Its Importance to China (1999-2002);

-         Restructuring Agricultural Production in China after the WTO: An International Experience (1999-2002); and

-         The Reform of China’s Agricultural Administration Systems in the Framework of the WTO (2002-04).

Visiting scholar to the former Soviet Union (1989-90), the United States (1995) and visited Egypt, the United States, Hungary, France, many republics of the former USSR, Germany, Colombia, the Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, Russia, and attended numerous IPC international seminars of and workshops in many countries. Guest professor of the Ohio State University since 1993 for its “Study Abroad Program” and read lectures on “Rural Development in China” and “Agricultural Reforms in China”.

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