Vivian Wei Huang

I am an applied economics researcher focusing on agri-environmental sustainability and sustainable resource use in agricultural production.

Specifically, my research includes (1) productivity and ecological efficiency analysis with an emphasis on sustainable resource use, employing Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA); (2) consumer demand system analysis focusing on the transition to sustainable consumption in Sweden; (3) cost-benefit analysis at the farm level using a stochastic partial budgeting approach; and (4) analysis of farmers' attitudes and perceptions toward adopting eco-friendly production methods, using Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) models.

I am the course leader for "Analysis of productivity and efficiency of food system firms" (NA0198) and thesis courses in Economics for B.Sc. and M.Sc. (EX0903, EX0905, EX0907). I am teaching parts of "Production Economics" (FÖ0476). I was course leader for "Microeconomics and its applications in agricultural and environmental economicsand" (NA0183) in VT2020.

Ongoing externally funded projects:

I am the main applicant (PI) for Formas funded project (2023-2026)"Towards fossil-independent dairy farming in Sweden: Technical strategy, climate and economic effects, drivers and barriers".

I'm a co-applicant and consortium member of Horizon Europe (HORIZON) project "Analysing of fossil-energy dependence in agriculture to increase resilience against input price fluctuations (AgEnRes) (2024-2027)". 

I'm work package leader for Mistra Food Future Phase II on "Food supply chain organization structure for sustainability and resilience".

I'm co-applicant for Formas funded projects "Plant Protein Nanofibrils: The Eco-Friendly Food Stabilizer of the Future (2024-2027)" (led by Dr. Jing Lu), "Economic policy instruments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish food sector (EPIC) (2021-2024)" (led by Dr. Sarah Säll), "How do we achieve fossil-free agriculture in Sweden (2022-2025)" (led by Prof. Dr. Per-Anders Hansson), "Stop the spread of Mycoplasma bovis and protect free herds (2021-2024)" (led by Dr. Stefan Widgren), and "A strong pulse - resilient Swedish grain legume supply from field and factory to fork (2023-2025)" (led by Prof. Dr. Maud Langton). 

• 2024 - present, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
• 2019 - 2024, Researcher, Department of Economics, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden 
• 2016 - 2019, Postdoc, Department of Economics, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
• 2011 – 2015, Ph.D. student, supervisor Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer,  Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.
• 2014, visiting Ph.D. student, co-supervisor Prof. Dr. Lynn Huntsinger, University of California at Berkeley, United States.

• Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Vivian Wei Huang, Zhen Chen, Ortrud Jäck, Nasir Adam, Thanh Mai Ha, Martin Weih, Helena Hansson, 2024. Economic outcomes from adopting cereal-legume intercropping practices in Sweden,
  Agricultural Systems, 220.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104064
• Fang Yin, Zhanli Sun, Liangzhi You, Vivian Wei Huang, 2024. Technical Efficiency Versus Land-Use Efficiency: A Spatio-Temporal Efficiency Analysis of China’s Crop Production. German Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73 (2). https://doi.org/10.52825/gjae.v73i2.1409
• Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang, 2024. The effects of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw returning behavior. Agribusiness, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21934
• Wei Huang, Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Helena Hansson, 2024. Does ecologization matter for technical efficiency in crop production? A case of Swedish agriculture. Land Use Policy, 138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107068
• Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang, 2023. Public Agricultural Extension, Pest and Disease Experience, and Adoption of Improved Wheat Varieties. German Journal of Agricultural Economics, 72. https://doi.org/10.30430/gjae.2023.0350
• Ibnu Nur Hamzah, Wei Huang, 2023. The dynamics of strategically important food preference in Indonesia: An empirical evaluation of consumption pattern and welfare loss, Economic Analysis and Policy 79, 435-449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2023.06.024
• Subrata Koiry, Wei Huang, 2023. Do ecological protection approaches affect total factor productivity change of cropland production in Sweden? Ecological Economics, 209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107829
• Wei Huang, Qian Liu, Assem Abu Hatab, 2022. Is the technical efficiency green? The environmental efficiency of agricultural production in the MENA region. Journal of Environmental Management, 327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116820  
• Wei Huang, 2022. Demand for Plant-based Milk and Effects of a Carbon Tax on Fresh Milk Consumption in Sweden. Economic Analysis and Policy, 75, 518-529.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.06.011
• Qian Liu, Yongmu Jiang, Carl-Johan Lagerkvist, Wei Huang, 2021. Extension services and the technical efficiency of crop-specific farms in China. Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, 1-24 https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13209. 
• Liyan Yu, Wei Huang, 2020. Non-economic societal impact or economic revenue? A performance and efficiency analysis of farmer cooperatives in China. Journal of Rural Studies, 80, 123-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.010. 
• Wei Huang, 2019. Forest property right change and a spatial econometric analysis of the forestry land change in Northeast China. Forest Policy and Economics, 98, 62-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2018.09.003
• Wei Huang, Li Jiang, 2019. Efficiency performance of fertilizer use in arable agricultural production in China, China Agricultural Economic Review, 11(1),52-69, https://doi.org/10.1108/CAER-12-2017-0238
• Qian Zhang, Zhongxiao Sun, Wei Huang, 2018. Does land perform well fo r corn planting? An empirical study on land use efficiency in China, Land Use Policy, 74, 273-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.10.032
• Wei Huang, Bernhard Brümmer, 2017. Balancing economic revenue and grazing pressure of livestock grazing on the Qinghai–Tibetan–Plateau, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 61, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12225
• Wei Huang, Bernhard Brümmer, Lynn Huntsinger, 2017. Technical efficiency and the impact of grassland use right leasing on livestock grazing on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Land Use Policy, 64, 342-352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.03.009
• Wei Huang, Bernhard Brümmer, Lynn Huntsinger, 2016. Incorporating Measures of Grassland Productivity into Efficiency Estimates for Livestock Grazing on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China, Ecological Economics, 122, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.11.025