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Professor Wanglin Ma serves as Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Global Value Chains and Trade at Lincoln University's Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce. He also holds the position of Head of Department since January 2024 and serves as Program Director of the LU-YAU Joint Education Program. With an extensive international research profile, Professor Ma has established himself as a leading scholar in agricultural and development economics, with notable contributions to understanding farm productivity, rural development strategies, and sustainable agricultural practices across both developed and developing contexts.
Professor Ma's research focuses on understanding strategies that enhance farm performance, improve household welfare, and promote sustainable rural development. His work spans New Zealand, where he has examined dairy farm profitability and technical efficiency, and developing countries including China, Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Indonesia, where he has investigated sustainable agricultural practices and cooperative membership. He has made significant contributions to understanding how digital technologies such as smartphones, e-commerce, and mobile payments advance rural livelihoods, increase non-farm employment, and enhance subjective well-being. His research also explores clean energy access, nutrition, and gender inequality through multidimensional analytical frameworks.
Professor Ma's scholarly impact is substantial, with over 160 articles published in more than 60 international peer-reviewed journals, 3 book chapters, and 10 social media articles. His work has achieved an H-index of 49 and accumulated over 7,636 citations in Google Scholar. He is recognized globally within the top 0.9% of economists on the RePEc platform and ranks among the top 200 Agricultural Economists worldwide. In New Zealand, he is among the top 5 economists and ranked second among agricultural economists in the country.
His publications reveal consistent focus on sustainable agricultural practices, digital transformation in rural areas, gender equality, and energy poverty, with recent work showing increasing emphasis on climate-smart agriculture and multidimensional poverty measurement. The breadth of his research is reflected in publications across diverse journals spanning agricultural economics, development economics, environmental science, and sustainability studies.
Professor Ma has received numerous accolades including the Excellent Reviewers Award from the Journal of Integrative Agriculture (2020), the Highly Commended Paper Award from China Agricultural Economic Review (2020), and the High Citation Award from the same journal (2021). According to the Sage Policy Profile, his research has influenced policy with 91 policy documents citing his work.
As an educator and mentor, Professor Ma has supervised numerous PhD and master's students, many of whom have published in reputable international journals. His teaching excellence is reflected in consistently high course evaluation scores, with an average of 4.6 out of 5 in recent years. He has served as co-editor-in-chief and associate editor for several prestigious journals including Review of Development Economics and Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. His commitment to academic service is evident in his role as referee for 134 international journals, with over 530 reviews completed. Professor Ma actively contributes to international academic discourse through his participation in over 50 presentations at renowned universities and research institutes, and more than 60 presentations at prestigious international conferences organized by academic associations such as AAEA, EAAE, AARES, ADBI, and IAAE.