She is in the global secretariat of the BRICS Initiatives for Critical Agrarian Studies (BICAS) and is co-editor of the BICAS Working Paper Series. She holds a PhD in Development Studies from China Agricultural University, and completed a Postdoc at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Netherlands. Her research interests and publications include: internal migration and left-behind population, social policies, rural politics, land politics, and political economy of agriculture, food and environment.