Mahdieh khezri-nejad-gharaei

PhD student

Department of agricultural economics
MODERNA
Ghent University
Coupure Links 653
9000 Ghent, Belgium

Bio

I joined the Department of Agricultural Economics in October 2024 for my PhD research stay. I am a PhD candidate at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, co-supervised by Prof. Buysse. I hold a BSc and MSc in Agricultural Economics, as well as an MSc in Applied Economics.
Published

  1. Khezri Nejhad Gharaei, M., & Bakhshoudeh, M. (2014). A study of switching from conventional agriculture to organic agriculture in Iran: SWOT-ANP application. J. Middle East Appl. Sci. Technol. (JMEAST), 17(2), 481-491.
  2. Khezri-nejad-gharaei, M., & Garcia-López, M. À. (2025). Reverse Causality Between Urbanization and Climate Change. International Economic Journal, 39(1), 1–29.
  3. Khezri-nejad-gharei, M., Gusemi, B., & Gil Roig, J. M. (2025). From Metrics to Insights: Evaluating Cereal Farming Sustainability in Catalonia Using Composite Index Approach. Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská Ekonomika), 71(11), 592–603.
  4. Khezri-nejad-gharei, M., Gusemi, B., & Gil Roig, J. M. (2026). Exploring the Interplay Between Sustainability and Resilience: Evidence from Farm Accounting Data in Catalonia, Spain. New Medit, 25(1).
  5. Khezri-nejad-gharei, M., Gusemi, B., & Gil Roig, J. M. (2026). Assessing the sensitivity of global sustainability indicator to different composite index methods: application to cereal farming in Catalonia. Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, (May).
  6. Khezri-nejad-gharaei, M., Guesmi, B., & Gil Roig, J. M. (2026). Socio-Economic Impacts and Value Chain Dynamics in Food Industries: A Comprehensive Analysis Using Continuous Difference-in-Differences. Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, (May).
  7. Khezri-nejad-gharei, M., Gusemi, B., Buysse, J., & Gil Roig, J. M. (2026). Vulnerability Assessment of Major Crops in Catalonia: An Interaction of Climate and Non-Climate Factors. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics1–14.

Research

My current research focuses on sustainability and climate change, with a long-term goal of optimizing the management and use of natural resources within agricultural and environmental economics. In collaboration with MODERNA, I already published a paper on research that analyze the vulnerability of farms to both climate and non-climate factors, and another paper under review about the use of Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) to model the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture.

Keywords

  • Applied economic
  • Sustainability researche
  • Natural resource management
  • Agricultural systems
  • Data science

Mahdieh khezri-nejad-gharaei