Name: REN Yanjun
Department：Agricultural Economics
Title：Professor
Basic Infomation
REN Yanjun, Professor and PhD supervisor at the College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, received his PhD in Agricultural economics from the Institute of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel, Germany, in 2017, and continuously conducted postdoctoral research from 2017 to 2019. He serves as visiting senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), and Senior Consultant at the Sino-German Agricultural Center (DCZ), the Ministry of Agriculture. His research interests include food economics, consumer behaviours, and development economics, with an emphasis on the sustainable food system and nutrition-related health issues in China. As of October 2022, he has published more than 30 scientific papers in academic journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Regional Studies, Journal of Rural Studies, China Economic Review, Empirical Economics, China Agricultural Economic Review, etc.
Admission Orientation：Agricultural Economic Management (Master degree, PhD); Industrial Economics, Regional Economics (Master degree); Agricultural Management (Professional Master Degree)
Office： C-410, College of Economics and Management
Email：yanjun.ren@nwafu.edu.cn
Education
Nov. 2012~Feb.2017 Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel, Germany
Sep.2009~ July.2012 M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, China
Sep.2005~July.2009 B.Sc. in Physics, Shaanxi University of Technology, China
Working Experience
Since Dec.2021 Professor, College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University
Since Dec.2021 Senior Researcher Fellow, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development
in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany
Jan.2019 ~Nov.2021 Senior Researcher, IAMO, Germany
Feb.2017~Jan.2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel, Germany
Research Interests
Agricultural Economics, Food Economics, Health Economics, Consumer behaviours
Course Teaching
《Food Safety and Management》, 《Food pricing》, 《Entrepreneurial Management》
Scientific Research Achievements
1. Research Projects
[1]. Yong Talent Project in Shaanxi Province, 2022.06 -2027.06, PI
[2]. Research on Market Analysis and Consumer behaviour of Functional Dairy using VR, QinchuangYuan Project in Shaanxi Province, 2022.07-2025.06, PI
[3]. Research on Sustainable development of food system and nutrition-related health transformation in western China under the dual circulation pattern, Young Talent Project from Northwest A&F University, 2021.12-2026.12, PI
[4]. Digital transformation of China’s agriculture – resources, trade and food security, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), 2021.05-2024.05, PI (Subproject)
[5]. Research on the development mechanisms and realization paths of Green Agriculture based on the cooperation between the government and Enterprise Agricultural Association, 2021.10-2024.10, first participant.
[6]. The Role of Rood Retailing in Household Food Waste in Schleswig-Holstein: A Pilot Study, 2018.04-2019.01, PI
2. Papers
[1]. Yanjun Ren, Xiaofei Liu, and Jens-Peter Loy. 2022. Spatial Transmission of Price Promotion for German Beer Retailers. Forthcoming, Regional Studies.
[2]. Yanjun Ren, Jiajia Zhao, Thomas Glauben, and Bente Castro Campos. 2022. Supermarket environment and nutrition outcomes: Evidence from rural China. Journal of Rural Studies 92, (May 2022), 79–92. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.03.019
[3]. Yanjun Ren, Yanling Peng, Bente Castro Campos, and Houjian Li. (2021). The Effect of Contract Farming on the Environmentally Sustainable Production of Rice in China. Sustainable Production and Consumption 28 (October): 1381–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.08.011.
[4]. Yanjun Ren, Yanling Peng, Bente Castro Campos, and Houjian Li. (2021). Higher Minimum Wage, Better Labour Market Returns for Rural Migrants? Evidence from China. Economic Research -Ekonomska Istraživanja 34 (1): 1814–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1848607.
[5]. Yanjun Ren, Bente Castro Campos, Yanling Peng, and Thomas Glauben. (2021). Nutrition Transition with Accelerating Urbanization? Empirical Evidence from Rural China. Nutrients 13 (3): 921. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13030921.
[6]. Yanjun Ren, Yanjie Zhang, Castro Campos Bente, and Jens-Peter Loy. (2020). Unhealthy Consumption Behaviours and Their Intergenerational Transmissions: The Role of Education. China Economic Review 62, 101208. https://doi.org/10/ghdv6c.
[7]. Yanjun Ren, Castro Campos Bente, and Jens-Peter Loy. (2020). Drink and Smoke; Drink or Smoke? – The Interdependence between Alcohol and Cigarette Consumption for Men in China. Empirical Economics 58, 921–955. https://doi.org/10/ggzkrj.
[8]. Yanjun Ren, Hui Li, and Xiaobing Wang. (2019). Family Income and Nutrition-related Health: Evidence from Food Consumption in China. Social Science and Medicine , 232, 58–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.04.016. (ABS四星).
[9]. Yanjun Ren, Castro Campos Bente, Jens-Peter Loy, and Stephen Brosig. (2019) Low-Income and Overweight in the Transition Economy of China? Evidence from a Life-Course Utility Model. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 18, no. 8: 1753–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2095-3119(19).
[10]. Yanjun Ren, Yanjie Zhang, Jens-Peter Loy, and Thomas Glauben. (2018). Food Consumption among Income Classes and Its Response to Changes in Income Distribution in Rural China. China Agricultural Economic Review . https://doi.org/10.1108/CAER-08-2014-0079.
[11]. Castro Campos, Bente, Yanjun Ren*, and Martin Petrick. (2016). The Impact of Education on Income Inequality between Ethnic Minorities and Han in China. China Economic Review 41 (December):253–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2016.10.007.
[12]. 李会，王晓兵，任彦军*. 中介效应机制分析的比较研究——来自农民收入与健康的证据(2019). 农业技术经济, 9：58-72.
Honors and Rewards
[1]. Research on Market Analysis and Consumer behaviour of Functional Dairy using VR, QinchuangYuan Project in Shaanxi Province, 2022.07-2025.06, PI
[2]. Research on Sustainable development of food system and nutrition-related health transformation in western China under the dual circulation pattern, Young Talent Project from Northwest A&F University, 2021.12-2026.12, PI
[3]. Digital transformation of China’s agriculture – resources, trade and food security, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), 2021.05-2024.05, PI (Subproject)
[4]. Research on the development mechanisms and realization paths of Green Agriculture based on the cooperation between the government and Enterprise Agricultural Association, 2021.10-2024.10, first participant.
[5]. The Role of Rood Retailing in Household Food Waste in Schleswig-Holstein: A Pilot Study, 2018.04-2019.01, PI
