PERSONAL PROFILE

Aftab Khan holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and Management from the College of Economics and Management at Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. His research interests span various fields, including Agricultural Economics, Choice Experiment, Climate Change, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Production Economics, Sustainable Development, and Resource Economics.

He has a strong educational background with a Master’s degree in Agricultural and Applied Economics from The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan, and a Bachelor’s degree in the same field from the same university.

Aftab has been part of several research projects funded by The National Social Science Major Foundation of China and The National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has received numerous scholarships and awards, including the Chinese Government Scholarship for Ph.D. Studies (2019-2023), and has also participated in various conferences and workshops.

He possesses skills in scientific writing and is proficient in using educational software like R, Stata, SPSS, SHAZAM, OriginLab, Eviews, ArcGIS, Microsoft Office, and Visio. He is fluent in English, Chinese, Urdu, and Pashto.

Publication

[1]Khan, A., & Wang, C. (2024). Exploring the consequence of ecological and agronomic determinants on wheat production instabilities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: Perspectives from dynamic autoregressive distributed lag analysis. Agricultural Water Management, 300, 108889. (IF: 6.70, Q1)

Fahad, S.,Khan, A., Waqas, M., & Luqman, M. Scrutinizing the nexus: Energy, economic growth, and environmental quality: An approach toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (7, 13, and 8). Sustainable Development.

[2]Khan A., Khan, SU., AA Khan, MAS Ali, M. Zhao*. Prioritizing stakeholders’ preferences for policy scenarios of vulnerable ecosystems with spatial heterogeneity in choice experiment: Coupling stated preferences with elevation. Journal of Environmental Management. (IF: 8.91, Q1)

[3]Khan A.Khan, S., Yao, L., Khan, Z. A., Ali, U., & Zhao, M. (2023). Exploring stakeholder preferences and spatial heterogeneity in policy scenario analysis for vulnerable ecosystems: A choice experiment approach. Ecological Indicators. (IF: 6.28, Q2)

[4]Khan, A., Ali, S., Shah, S. A., & Fayaz, M. (2018). Impact of temperature and precipitation on net revenue of maize growers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, 34(4), 729-739.

[5] Khan A, Ali S, Khan A, Waqas M, Khan, SU. (2020). Technical Efficiency of Maize in District Lakki Marwat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture; 36: 402-410.

[6]Khan A, Ali S, Khan, SU., Shah SA (2019). Allocative Efficiency of Maize Growers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture 35.

[7]Khan A, Ali S, Shah SA, Khan, SU. (2019). Determinants of farmers’ perception about climate change in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan. Pure and Applied Biology 8: 2159-2168.

[8] Du, R.,Khan,A., Shi, R., Shen, Y., & Zhao, M. (2024). Impact of production outsourcing on the adoption of low-carbon agricultural technologies in China. Agricultural Economics, 70(4), 187-197.

[9] Hamdullah, Ali, S.,Khan, A*., & Khan, SU. (2020). Economic appraisal of transformative climate change on potential variations in wellbeing of wheat growrs across various ecological zones.Environmental Science and Pollution Research(IF: 5.88, Q1).

[10] Zhang, W.,Khan, A., Luo, Y., Qi, T. and Zhao, M., How do risk preferences influence forage planting behaviors among farmers in the agro-pastoral ecotone of China?. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, p.1252626. (IF: 4.7, Q2)

[11] Chandel, R. B. S.,Khan, A., Li, X., & Xia, X. (2022). Farm-level technical efficiency and its determinants of rice production in indo-gangetic plains: A stochastic frontier model approach. Sustainability, 14(4), 2267. (IF: 3.88, Q2)

[12] Ali MAS, Khan, SU,Khan A, Khan AA, Zhao M (2020). Ranking of ecosystem services on the basis of willingness to pay: Monetary assessment of a subset of ecosystem services in the Heihe River basin. Science of The Total Environment 139447.(IF: 10.75, Q1)

[13] Du, R., He, T.,Khan, A., & Zhao, M. (2024). Carbon emissions changes of animal husbandry in China: Trends, attributions, and solutions: A spatial shift-share analysis. Science of The Total Environment, 172490. (IF: 10.75, Q1)

[14] Xie, Y., Chen, Z.,Khan, A.and Ke, S., 2024. Organizational support, market access, and farmers’ adoption of agricultural green production technology: evidence from the main kiwifruit production areas in Shaanxi Province. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, pp.1-17(IF: 5.88, Q1).

[15] Cai, Y., Zhao, M.,Khan, A., & Shi, Y. (2024). Understanding herder’s perception and adaptation to climate change: an integrated framework. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-29. (IF: 4.90, Q2)

[16] Khan, Z. A., Zhu, J.,Khan, A., Koondhar, M. A., Kakar, S. K., Ali, U., & Tianjun, L. (2023). Farmers’ social networks’ effects on the sustainable production of fresh apples in China’s Shaanxi province. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11, 1177028.(IF: 5.41, Q2)

[17] Khan, Z. A., Koondhar, M. A., Tiantong, M.,Khan, A., Nurgazina, Z., Tianjun, L., & Fengwang, M. (2022). Do chemical fertilizers, area under greenhouses, and renewable energies drive agricultural economic growth owing the targets of carbon neutrality in China? Energy Economics, 115, 106397. (IF: 12.8, Q1)

[18] Khan, Z.A., Koondhar, M.A.,Khan, A., Zhang, Z., Ali, U., Nurgazina, Z. and Liu, T., 2023. Exploring the impact of carbon emissions and co-macroeconomic determinants on China’s sustainable apple export. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30(47), pp.104603-104619.(IF: 5.88, Q1).

[19] Khan, A. A., Khan, S. U., Ali, M. A. S., Javed, T.,Khan, A., & Luo, J. (2021). An impact of climate change and groundwater salinity on shadow price of water, farmers’ revenue, and socioeconomic and environmental indicators in district Kohat-Pakistan. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-14.(IF: 5.88, Q1)

[20] Khan AA, Khan, SU., Fahad S, Ali MA,Khan A,Luo J (2020). Microfinance and poverty reduction: New evidence from Pakistan. International Journal of Finance & Economics.(IF: 1.63, Q2)

[21] Khan, S. U., Cui, Y., Khan, A. A., Ali, M. A. S.,Khan, A., Xia, X., ... & Zhao, M. (2021). Tracking sustainable development efficiency with human-environmental system relationship: An application of DPSIR and super efficiency SBM model.Science of The Total Environment,783, 146959. (IF: 10.75, Q1)

[22] Khan, A. A., Khan, S. U., Ali, M. A. S.,Khan, A., Hayat, Y., & Luo, J. (2022). Drivers of climate variability and increasing water salinity impacts on the farmer’s income risk with future outlook mitigation. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, (ahead-of-print). (IF: 3.55, Q3)

[23] Ali, S., Ahmad, W., Israr, M.,Khan, A., & Shah, S. A. (2022). Determinants of Rice Yield in Central Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, 38(1).

[24] Ali, S., & Murtaza, W. A. N. Bibi,A. Khanand J. Khan. 2022. Does education and farming experience affect technical efficiency of rice crop growers? Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, 38(3), 1147-1159.

[25] Sanaullah, U. P., Ali, S., Fayaz, M., &Khan, A. (2020). The impact of improved farming practices on maize yield in Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, 36(1), 348-358.

[26] Ali, U., Guo, Q., Nurgazina, Z., Sharif, A., Kartal, M. T., Depren, S. K., &Khan, A.(2023). Heterogeneous impact of industrialization, foreign direct investments, and technological innovation on carbon emissions intensity: Evidence from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Applied Energy,336, 120804. (IF: 11.46, Q1)

[27] Khan, A., Ali, S., Shah, S. A.,Khan, A., & Ullah, R. (2019). Impact of climate change on maize productivity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, 35(2), 594-601.

[28] Ali, S., Khan, A.,Khan, A., & Riaz, B. (2019). Determinants of technical efficiency of tomato farms in district Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, 35(2), 572-578.