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· Food Systems
· Agricutlural Trade
· Climate Impacts
· Mitigation Policies
· Economic Modeling
· Integrated Assessment Modeling

Prof. Dr. Xaioxi Wang


Dr. Xiaoxi Wang is currently a tenured Associate Professor at Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Zhejiang University and China Academy for Rural Development, and Guest Senior Scientist at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany, Honorary Research Associate at Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at University of Oxford in UK. His research field includes Agricultural Economics, Resource and Environmental Economics, Food Systems, Economic Modeling, Integrated Assessment Modeling, Climate Mitigation and Adaptation, and Agricultural Trade. He has published peer-review articles in high ranking journals including Nature Food, Nature Aging, Nature Sustainability, Nature Water, Lancet Planetary Health, World Development, Ecological Economics, JEEM. He is a core member of a modeling team at PIK, which develops a global agro-economic land system model– MAgPIE (Model of Agricultural Production and its Impact on the Environment). He leads MAgPIE-China Research Group and the developments of MAgPIE-China , a China country-specific model of MAgPIE. From November 2021, he serves as Affiliated Editor at World Development.

Key publications

Peer-review Articles

† These authors contributed equally. * Corresponding author.

  1. Wang, X.†*, Cai, H.†, Xuan, J.†, Yuan, C.†, Bodirsky, B.L., Stevanović, M., Dietrich, J.P., Popp, A., Lotze-Campen, H., 2025. Multi-benefit diet changes in China. Nature Sustainability 1–2.
  2. Cai, H.†, Xuan, J.†, Wang, X.†*, Yuan, C.†, Bodirsky, B.L., Stevanović, M., Dietrich, J.P., Popp, A., Lotze-Campen, H., 2025. The multiple benefits of Chinese dietary transformation. Nature Sustainability 1–13.
  3. Wang, X.*, Lotze-Campen, H., 2025. China's sustainable food system requires concerted efforts. Nature Food 6, 17–18.
  4. Wang, X.*, Cai, H., Xuan, J., Du, R., Lin, B., Bodirsky, B. L., Stevanović, M., Collignon, Q., Yuan, C., Yu, L., Crawford, M., Beier, F., Xu, M., Chen, H., Springmann, M., Leip, D., Chen, D. M., Humpenöder, F., von Jeetze, P., Fan, S., Soergel, B., Dietrich, J. P., Müller, C., Popp, A., Lotze-Campen, H.*, 2025. Bundled measures for China's food system transformation reveal social and environmental co-benefits. Nature Food 6, 72–84.
  5. Hou, S., Huo, J., Zhao, X.*, Wang, X.*, Zhang, X., Zhao, D., Tillotson, M.R., Shan, Y., Flörke, M., Guo, W., Meng, J.*, Hubacek, K.*, 2025. Tracking grid-level freshwater boundary exceedance along global supply chains from consumption to impact. Nature Water 1–10.
  6. Chen, H.†, Wang, X.†, Ji, J. S., Huang, L., Qi, Y., Wu, Y., He, P., Li, Y., Bodirsky, B. L., Müller, C., Willett, W. C., Yuan, C.*, 2024. Plant-based and planetary-health diets, environmental burden, and risk of mortality: a prospective study in China. The Lancet Planetary Health 8, e545–e553.
  7. Du, R.†, Cai, H.†, Xuan, J., Wang, X.*, Stevanović, M., Dietrich, J. P., Popp, A., Lotze-Campen, H., 2024. Enhancing governance performance in Sub-Saharan Africa can bolster climate mitigation and food security. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 10, 0241.
  8. Wang, X.*, Du, R., Cai, H., Lin, B., Dietrich, J.P., Stevanović, M., Lotze-Campen, H., Popp, A., 2024. Assessing the impacts of technological change on food security and climate change mitigation in China's agriculture and land-use sectors. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 107, 107550.
  9. Yu, L., Lin, B., Jin, S., Wang, X.*, 2024. Health implications of cooking energy transition: Evidence from rural China. Environmental Research Letters 19, 124048.
  10. Wang, X.*, Xu, M., Lin, B., Bodirsky, L. B., Xuan, J., Dietrich, J. P., Stevanović, M., Bai, Z., Ma, L., Jin, S., Fan, S., Lotze-Campen, L., Popp, A., 2023. Reforming China's fertilizer policies: Implications for nitrogen pollution reduction and food security. Sustainability Science 18, 407-420.
  11. Wang, X.*, Bodirsky, B. L.*, Müller, C., Chen, K., Yuan, C.*, 2022. The triple benefits of slimming and greening the Chinese food system. Nature Food 3, 686-693.
  12. Chen, H., Shen, J., Xuan J., Zhu, A., Ji, S.J., Liu X., Cao, Y., Zong, G., Zeng, Y., Wang, X.*, Yuan, C.*, 2022. Healthful and unhealthful plant-based dietary patterns related to mortality among older adults in China: A national community-based prospective study. Nature Aging 2, 224-230.
  13. Kasymov, U., Wang, X.*, Zikos, D., Chopan, M., Ibele, B., 2022. Institutional barriers to sustainable forest management: Evidence from an experimental study in Tajikistan. Ecological Economics 193, 107276.
  14. Lin, B., Wang, X.*, Jin, S., Yang, W., Li, H., 2022. Impacts of cooperative membership on rice productivity: Evidence from China. World Development 150, 105669.
  15. Busch, J., Ring, I., Akullo, M., Amarjargal, O., Borie, M., Cassola, R., Cruz-Trinidad, A., Droste, N., Haryanto, J. T., Kasymov, U., Kotenko, N., Lkhagvadorj, A., de Paulo, F. L., May, P., Mukherjee, A., Mumbunan, S., Santos, R., Tacconi, L., Selva, G. V., Verma, M., Wang, X., Yu, L., Zhou, K., 2021. A global review of ecological fiscal transfers. Nature Sustainability 4, 756-765.
  16. Bodirsky, B. L., Dietrich, J. P., Martinelli, E., Stenstad, A., Pradhan, P., Gabrysch, S., Mishra, A., Weindl, I., Le Mouël, C., Rolinski, S., Baumstark, L., Wang, X., Waid, J. L., Lotze-Campen, H., Popp, A., 2020. The ongoing nutrition transition thwarts long-term targets for food security, public health and environmental protection. Scientific Reports 10, 19778.
  17. Wang, X.*, Dietrich, J. P., Lotze-Campen, H., Biewald, A., Stevanović, M., Bodirsky, B. L., Brümmer, B., Popp, A., 2020. Beyond land-use intensity: Assessing future global crop productivity growth under different socioeconomic pathways. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 160, 120208.
  18. Dietrich, J. P., Bodirsky, B. L., Humpenöder, F., Weindl, I., Stevanović, M., Karstens, K., Kreidenweis, U., Wang, X., Mishra, A., Klein, D., Ambrósio, G., Araujo, E., Yalew, A. W., Baumstark, L., Wirth, S., Giannousakis, A., Beier, F., Chen, D. M.-C., Lotze-Campen, H., Popp, A., 2019. MAgPIE 4 – a modular open-source framework for modeling global land systems. Geoscientific Model Development 12, 1299-1317.
  19. Stevanović, M., Popp, A., Bodirsky, B., Humpenöder, F., Müller, C., Weindl, I., Dietrich, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Kreidenweis, U., Rolinski, S., Biewald, A., Wang, X., 2017. Mitigation strategies for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land-use change: Consequences for food prices. Environmental Science & Technology 51, 365-374.
  20. Wang, X.*, Biewald, A., Dietrich, J. P., Schmitz, C., Lotze-Campen, H., Humpenöder, F., Bodirsky, B. L., Popp, A., 2016. Taking account of governance: Implications for land-use dynamics, food prices, and trade patterns. Ecological Economics 122, 12-24.
  21. Wang, X.*, Otto, I.M., Lu, Y., 2013. How physical and social factors affect village-level irrigation: An institutional analysis of water governance in northern China. Agricultural Water Management 119, 10-18.

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