Lixia Tang biography

Lixia Tang is a professor at the China Agricultural University. She has conducted extensive work on the Chinese experience of alleviating poverty. Over the past decade, the focus of her research has been on China’s role in the agricultural sector of Sub-Saharan Africa, which has included fieldwork in many African countries including Zimbabwe and Uganda.

She received a Ph.D. from China Agricultural University in International Development Studies and a Ph.D. from Humboldt University in Agricultural Economics.