Dr Di Zeng

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2021 - ongoing	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide
  2016 - 2020	Lecturer	University of Adelaide

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  Chinese (Mandarin)	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
  English	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  	Virginia Tech	United States	PhD

• Research Interests

  Agricultural Economics Economic Development Policy Environment and Resource Economics Health Economics Economic and public policy Agri-food, water and environment systems People, behaviour and choices Econometric methods and applications Economics Applied Economics Agricultural Economics & Policy Urban and Regional Economics

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2025	Shen, Y., Zeng, D., & Zuo, A. (2025). Unveiling the impact and mechanism of agricultural input allocation on the income mobility of rural households: Evidence from China. China Economic Review, 90, 102356-1-102356-15. DOI Scopus1
  2024	Sayekti, A. L., Hasibuan, A. M., Stringer, R., & Zeng, D. (2024). Understanding the dynamics of hybrid seed adoption among smallholder chilli farmers in Indonesia. Outlook on Agriculture, 53(1), 49-59. DOI
  2023	Chen, X., Xia, M., Zeng, D., & Fan, X. (2023). Citrus Specialization or Crop Diversification: The Role of Smallholder’s Subjective Risk Aversion and Case Evidence from Guangxi, China. Horticulturae, 9(6), 18 pages. DOI Scopus3
  2022	Genova, C., Umberger, W., Peralta Sanchez, M. A., Newman, S., & Zeng, D. (2022). The Indirect Impact of Smallholder Vegetable Production on Children's Nutrition Outcomes in Rural Vietnam. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6, 1-21. DOI Scopus1
  2022	Xia, M., Zeng, D., Huang, Q., & Chen, X. (2022). Coupling Coordination and Spatiotemporal Dynamic Evolution between Agricultural Carbon Emissions and Agricultural Modernization in China 2010–2020. Agriculture (Switzerland), 12(11), 1-19. DOI Scopus18 WoS5
  2021	Huang, Z., & Zeng, D. (2021). Factors Affecting Salt Reduction Measure Adoption among Chinese Residents.. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(2), 445-1-445-15. DOI Scopus6 WoS3 Europe PMC5
  2021	Qanti, S., Peralta, A., & Zeng, D. (2021). Social norms and perceptions drive women’s participation in agricultural decisions in West Java, Indonesia. Agriculture and Human Values, 39(2), 645-662. DOI Scopus13 WoS1
  2021	Wang, B., Zeng, D., & Yang, B. (2021). Decomposing peer effects in pro-environmental behaviour: Evidence from a Chinese nationwide survey. Journal of Environmental Management, 295, 113100. DOI Scopus31 WoS14 Europe PMC7
  2020	Sayekti, A. L., Zeng, D., & Stringer, R. (2020). Impact of hybrid seeds on demand for labour: the case of chilli production in Indonesia. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, 10(5), 15 pages. DOI Scopus5 WoS2
  2020	Chen, X., Zeng, D., Zhang, H., & Kang, C. (2020). Farm expansion under credit constraint: evidence from commercial rice farmers in Guangxi, China. INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 23(2), 203-215. DOI Scopus7 WoS3
  2020	Umberger, W. J., Rupa, J. A., & Zeng, D. (2020). Understanding food westernisation and other contemporary drivers of adult, adolescent and child nutrition quality in urban Vietnam.. Public Health Nutrition, 23(14), 2571-2583. DOI Scopus10 WoS6 Europe PMC5
  2020	Nguyen-Anh, D., Umberger, W. J., & Zeng, D. (2020). Understanding vietnamese urban consumers’ nutrition label use, health concerns, and consumption of food and beverages with added sugars. Nutrients, 12(11), 1-18. DOI Scopus7 WoS4 Europe PMC1
  2019	Zeng, D., Thomsen, M., & Nayga, R. (2019). Neighborhood Convenience Stores and Childhood Obesity: A Panel Data Instrumental Variable Approach. Applied Economics, 51(3), 1-16. DOI Scopus12 WoS9
  2019	Zeng, D., Thomsen, M. R., Nayga, R. M., & Bennett, J. L. (2019). Supermarket access and childhood bodyweight: Evidence from store openings and closings. Economics and Human Biology, 33, 78-88. DOI Scopus7 WoS5 Europe PMC6
  2019	Rupa, J. A., Umberger, W. J., & Zeng, D. (2019). Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 63(3), 499-520. DOI Scopus20 WoS14
  2018	Zeng, D., Alwang, J., Norton, G., Jaleta, M., Shiferaw, B., & Yirga, C. (2018). Land ownership and technology adoption revisited: improved maize varieties in Ethiopia. Land Use Policy, 72, 270-279. DOI Scopus54 WoS34 Europe PMC6
  2018	Chen, X., Zeng, D., Xu, Y., & Fan, X. (2018). Perceptions, risk attitude and organic fertilizer investment: evidence from rice and banana farmers in Guangxi, China. Sustainability, 10(10), 3715-1-3715-14. DOI Scopus66 WoS39
  2018	HUANG, Z., XU, Y., ZENG, D., WANG, C., & WANG, J. (2018). One size fits all? Contract farming among broiler producers in China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 17(2), 473-482. DOI Scopus15 WoS10
  2018	Kassie, M., Marenya, P., Tessema, Y., Jaleta, M., Zeng, D., Erenstein, O., & Rahut, D. (2018). Measuring farm and market level economic impacts of improved maize production technologies in Ethiopia: evidence from panel data. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 69(1), 76-95. DOI Scopus124 WoS77
  2017	Zeng, D., Alwang, J., Norton, G., Shiferaw, B., Jaleta, M., & Yirga, C. (2017). Agricultural technology adoption and child nutrition enhancement: improved maize varieties in rural Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics, 48(5), 573-586. DOI Scopus42 WoS27
  2016	Zeng, D., Thomsen, M., Nayga, R., & Rouse, H. (2016). Middle school transition and body weight outcomes: evidence from Arkansas public schoolchildren. Economics and Human Biology, 21, 64-74. DOI Scopus3 WoS2 Europe PMC1
  2016	Huang, Z., Zeng, D., & Wang, J. (2016). Factors affecting Chinese broiler farmers’ main preventive practices in response to highly pathogenic avian influenza. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 134, 153-159. DOI Scopus13 WoS10 Europe PMC8
  2015	Zeng, D., You, W., Mills, B., Alwang, J., Royster, M., & Anson-Dwamena, R. (2015). A closer look at the rural-urban health disparities: insights from four major diseases in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Social Science & Medicine, 140, 62-68. DOI Scopus31 WoS27 Europe PMC17
  2015	Zeng, D., Alwang, J., Norton, G., Shiferaw, B., Jaleta, M., & Yirga, C. (2015). Ex post impacts of improved maize varieties on poverty in rural Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics, 46(4), 515-526. DOI Scopus86 WoS58
  2015	Huang, W., Zeng, D., & Zhou, S. (2015). Welfare impacts of modern peanut technologies in China. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 221-238.
  2015	Huang, W., Zeng, D., & Zhou, S. (2015). Welfare impacts of modern peanut varieties in China. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 54(3), 221-238. Scopus3

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2015	Zeng, D., Alwang, J., Norton, G., Shiferaw, B., Jaleta, M., & Yirga, C. (2015). Maize technologies and rural poverty reduction in Ethiopia. In T. Walker, & J. Alwang (Eds.), Crop improvement, adoption, and impact of improved varieties in food crops in sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 294-313). United Kingdom: CAB International. DOI

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2023	Qanti, S., Peralta Sanchez, M. A., & Zeng, D. (2023). Unfolding the spousal differences in response to intrahousehold decision-making participation questions: Evidence from West Java, Indonesia. In Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society 67th Annual Conference. Christchucrch, New Zealand.
  2023	Qanti, S., Peralta Sanchez, M. A., & Zeng, D. (2023). Women Decision Making and Dairy Technology Adoption: Positive correlation between women's participation in dairy farming activities and decisions with the adoption of improved cattle nutrition practices in West Java, Indonesia. In Australasian Agriculture and Resource Economics Society 67th Annual Conference.
  2018	Pagliuca, L. G., Dumbrell, N., Umberger, W., & Zeng, D. (2018). Drivers of changing meat expenditure and consumption patterns in urban Vietnam. In 62nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Adelaide, Australia.
  2018	Khamthara, P., Zeng, D., & Stringer, R. (2018). Horticultural Development and Its Welfare Implications on Agricultural Household Education Investment in Indonesia. In Horticultural Development and Its Welfare Implications on Agricultural Household Education Investment in Indonesia. Vancouver, Canada.
  2017	Dumbrell, N., Umberger, W., Zeng, D., Nguyen, A., & Pagliuca, L. (2017). Consumer preferences and consumption patterns for fruit & vegetables in urban Vietnam. In North-West Vietnam Research Symposium: Mountains of Opportunity. Hanoi, Vietnam: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
  2014	Zeng, D., Alwang, J., Norton, G., Shiferaw, B., Jaleta, M., & Yirga, C. (2014). Agricultural Technology Adoption and Child Nutrition: Improved Maize Varieties in Rural Ethiopia. In Proceedings of Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s 2014 AAEA Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, USA.

• Conference Items

  Year	Citation
  2019	Khamthara, P., Zeng, D., Stringer, R., & Hasibuan, A. (2019). The impacts of risk preference on off-farm income and child education investment: evidence from Indonesian horticultural farmers. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference 2019. Melbourne, Australia.
  2018	Khamthara, P., Zeng, D., Stringer, R., & Yi, D. (2018). Horticultural Development and Its Welfare Implications on Agricultural Household Education Investment in Indonesia. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference 2018. Adelaide, Australia.
  2018	Genova, C., Umberger., Newman., Peralta., & Zeng. (2018). The impact of smallholder vegetable production on child nutrition in rural Vietnam. Poster session presented at the meeting of 2018 Annual Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) Conference. Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, SA.
  2018	Nguyen, A. D., Umberger, W., & Zeng, D. (2018). Concerns and valuation of food quality and food safety in urban Vietnam. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society 62nd Annual Conference.
  2017	Nguyen, A. D., Umberger, W. J., Zeng, D., & Dumbrell, N. P. (2017). Concerns and valuation of food quality and food safety in urban Vietnam. Poster session presented at the meeting of North-West Vietnam Research Symposium: Mountains of Opportunity. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
  2017	Dumbrell, N., Umberger, W., Zeng, D., Nguyen, A., & Pagliuca, L. (2017). The role of market research in agricultural development for northwest Vietnam: The case of fruit and vegetables. Poster session presented at the meeting of North-West Vietnam Research Symposium: Mountains of Opportunity. Hanoi, Vietnam: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
  2017	Rupa, J., Ahmed, S., Umberger, W., Zeng, D., & Sim, N. (2017). Analysing the association between rural farm household health and economic shocks and food security in Bangladesh: a consolidated approach of measuring food security. Poster session presented at the meeting of PowerPoint presentation at 61st Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society's Annual Conference. Brisbane, Qld..
  2016	Rupa, J., Ahmed, S., Umberger, W., & Zeng, D. (2016). Analysing the association between rural farm household health and economic shocks and food security in Bangladesh: a consolidated approach of measuring food security. Poster session presented at the meeting of XXIII Agri-food Research Network (AFRN) conference. Adelaide, SA.
  2016	Zeng, D., Thomsen, M., & Nayga, R. (2016). Food Desert and Weight Outcome: Disentangling Confounding Mechanisms. Poster session presented at the meeting of Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) 2016 Annual Meeting.
  2015	Zeng, D., Thomsen, M., Nayga, R., & Rouse, H. (2015). Supermarket Access and Childhood Obesity: Natural Experiments of Store Openings and Closings. Poster session presented at the meeting of 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting.
  2013	Zeng, D., Alwang, J., Norton, G., Shiferaw, B., Jaleta, M., & Yirga, C. (2013). Ex-Post Impacts of Improved Maize Varieties on Poverty in Rural Ethiopia. Poster session presented at the meeting of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2013 Annual Meeting.
  2012	Zeng, D., You, W., Mills, B., Alwang, J., Royster, M., Studer, K., . . . Zeng, D. (2012). How Much DoWe Know about Rural-Urban Health Disparities: Lessons from Four Major Diseases in Virginia. Poster session presented at the meeting of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2012 Annual Meeting.

• Working Paper

  Year	Citation
  2016	Rupa, J. A., Ahmed, S., Umberger, W., Zeng, D., & Sim, N. (2016). Analysing the association between rural farm household health and economic shocks and food security in Bangladesh: a consolidated approach of measuring food security.

ECON 3525 Economic Policy Analysis, 2024- (BEc capstone course, instructor and coordinator)

ECON 3523 Advanced Economic Analysis III, 2023- (BEc Advanced capstone course, instructor and coordinator)

AGRIBUS 7055 Global Food and Agricultural Markets, 2016- (Instructor and Coordinator)

AGRIBUS 7061 Research Principles and Methods, 2017, 2021 (Co-instructor and coordinator)

AGRIBUS 7054 Global Food and Agricultural Policy, 2017 (Co-instructor and coordinator)

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2024	Principal Supervisor	Transforming to sustainable food consumption: an empirical study in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Thi Xuan Dieu Phan
  2024	Principal Supervisor	From Grain to Plate: A Multifaceted Analysis of Consumer Preferences for Rice in Bangladesh	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Limon Deb
  2023	Principal Supervisor	Climate change and agricultural water saving technologies: investigating the adoption decision and effects in north China	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Siqi Huang
  2022	Co-Supervisor	Wheat, Weapons and Worship: Improving the Delivery of Agricultural Development in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Angus Alexander Davidson

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2020 - 2023	Co-Supervisor	Women’s Participation in Intrahousehold Decision-making: A Case in Rural Smallholder Farm Households in West Java Indonesia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Sara Ratna Qanti
  2020 - 2024	Principal Supervisor	Understanding Consumers’ Organic Food Purchasing Behaviour in Laos and Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Chitpasong Kousonsavath
  2019 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Investigating online market consumer behaviour through spatial, big data and machine learning approaches: cases in Daigou, e-commerce platform and NFT crypto market	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Wenzhu David Tang
  2017 - 2021	Co-Supervisor	Exploring Relationships between Changing Food Environments, Food Consumption Behaviour, Attitudes and Nutrition Outcomes for Urban Vietnam	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Anh Duc Nguyen
  2017 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Horticultural Farming and Development Outcomes: Examining Human and Social Capital Investment Among Horticultural Households in Rural Indonesia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Phassara Khamthara
  2017 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Analysing the Drivers of Dietary Diversity, Diet Quality and Household Food Security in Developing Asia: Evidence from Urban Vietnam and Rural Bangladesh	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Jesmin Ara Rupa
  2016 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Understanding the Roles of Gender in Rural Development: The Case of Labour-Intensive Chilli Production in Indonesia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Apri Laila Sayekti

• Position: Senior Lecturer
• Phone: 83136226
• Email: di.zeng@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Nexus 10, floor 6
• Org Unit: Centre for Global Food and Resources