Collaborators

Xiaoping Sun is an assistant professor in the department of History at Saint Mary's University.

Professor Sun's current research project, entitled “Feeding the Nation from the Wilderness: Food, Migration, and Environment on China’s Northeastern Borderland,” examines the historic transformation of Beidahuang (北大荒, the Great Northern Wilderness) from China’s largest concentration of freshwater wetlands in the late 1940s to its largest agribusiness that can feed 10% of the Chinese population in the 2000s.

Weiping Chen is an associate professor in the faculty of agriculture and agricultural development at Renmin University of China. His research focuses on agricultural management, sustainable agriculture, food marketing, and consumer behaviour.

Li Zhou is a professor in the School of Agriculture Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China. His areas of expertise include rural finance, rural development, China studies, and rural reconstruction.

Yuhui Qiao is an associate professor in the faculty of resource and environmental management at China Agricultural University. Her research focuses on organic agriculture, land ecology, and pollution studies.

Taiyang Zhong is a professor in the faculty of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences at Nanjing University. Zhong's research interests include land policy, rural geography and food studies. Zhong plays a key role in the regional studies of food security and accessibility in the city of Nanjing for the Hungry Cities Project.

Our research collaborator Hannah Wittman is a professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. Her research projects examine the ways that the rights to produce and consume food are contested and transformed through struggles for agrarian reform, food sovereignty, and agrarian citizenship.