Aslıhan Arslan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6454786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aslıhan Arslan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aslıhan |
| FAMILY NAME | Arslan |
| SIGNATURE | ARSLAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Fund for Agricultural Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4655-6501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains
There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households. This study quantifies the environmental and social hidden costs of coffee value chains in three countries in Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania) to guide …
The effect of agricultural programs on dietary diversity and food security
Climate resilience in rural Zambia
This paper aims at identifying whether and how sustainable land management practices and livelihood diversification strategies have contributed to moderating the impacts of the El Niño-related drought in Zambia. This is done using a specifically designed survey called the El Niño Impact Assessment Survey, which is combined with the Rural Agricultural Livelihoods Surveys, as well as high resolution rainfall data at the ward level over 34 years. Th…
Youth Inclusion in Rural Transformation
The increasing numbers of rural youth in developing countries and their perceived disenchantment with the society and economy have raised policy concerns across the developed and developing world. Youth (ages 15 to 24) make up one in five people in developing countries, and one in eight in the developed world. Of the 1.2 billion youth in the world, nearly 1 billion reside in developing countries, and their numbers are growing far more rapidly tha…
Youth and Adult Agrifood System Employment in Developing Regions
Using a unique dataset covering 178,794 households with 460,654 individuals spanning Africa, Asia, and Latin America, we explore employment of youths across rural zones (peri-urban, intermediate, hinterland) and urban areas. Using full-time equivalents (FTEs), we compare own-farming versus farm-wage labour, and nonfarm wage- and self-employment. Nonfarm includes: (a) agrifood system (AFS) jobs post-farmgate, in food processing, wholesale, logisti…
Rural Youth Welfare along the Rural-urban Gradient
We use survey data on 170,000 households from Asia, Latin America and Africa, global geo-spatial data, and an economic geography framework to highlight five findings about rural youth in developing countries. First, the youth share in population is falling rapidly, and youth numbers are stable or falling slowly everywhere, except in Africa. In Africa, youth share is rising very slowly, but numbers are set to double in 40 years. Second, large majo…
Irrigation infrastructure and farm productivity in the Philippines
Effects of changes in rainfall and temperature on age- and sex-specific patterns of rural-urban migration in sub-Saharan Africa
We evaluate how changes in weather patterns affected rural-urban migration across 41 sub-Saharan African countries, by age and sex, over the 1980–2015 period. We combine recent age- and sex-specific estimates of net rural-urban migration with historical data on rainfall and temperature from the Climate Research Unit (CRU). We also compare standard unweighted estimates of rainfall and temperature to estimates weighted by the proportion of the coun…
Diversification Under Climate Variability as Part of a CSA Strategy in Rural Zambia
Climate change is posing an increasingly severe challenge to agricultural livelihoods due to increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Livelihood diversification can play an important role in decreasing food insecurity and vulnerability under these challenges. This paper contributes to the literature on livelihood diversification and vulnerability under climate change to assess the role of diversification as part of a Climate-S…
Smallholder productivity and weather shocks
Adoption and intensity of adoption of conservation farming practices in Zambia
Transforming Rural Economies
We analyse how migration shapes the distribution and sources of rural income using nationally representative panel data from Mexico. Income source Gini decompositions provide some support for the migration diffusion hypothesis. Nevertheless, migration's influence on other income sources and household re-ranking substantially alter distributional impacts. We find significant impacts of migration on non-remittance income, as well as changes in the …
Shadow vs. market prices in explaining land allocation
Effects of changes in rainfall and temperature on age- and sex-specific patterns of rural-urban migration in sub-Saharan Africa
We evaluate how changes in weather patterns affected rural-urban migration across 41 sub-Saharan African countries, by age and sex, over the 1980–2015 period. We combine recent age- and sex-specific estimates of net rural-urban migration with historical data on rainfall and temperature from the Climate Research Unit (CRU). We also compare standard unweighted estimates of rainfall and temperature to estimates weighted by the proportion of the coun…
Irrigation infrastructure and farm productivity in the Philippines
Smallholder productivity and weather shocks
Shadow vs. market prices in explaining land allocation
The effect of agricultural programs on dietary diversity and food security
Shadow vs. market prices in explaining land allocation
Transforming Rural Economies
We analyse how migration shapes the distribution and sources of rural income using nationally representative panel data from Mexico. Income source Gini decompositions provide some support for the migration diffusion hypothesis. Nevertheless, migration's influence on other income sources and household re-ranking substantially alter distributional impacts. We find significant impacts of migration on non-remittance income, as well as changes in the …
Adoption and intensity of adoption of conservation farming practices in Zambia
Smallholder productivity and weather shocks
Diversification Under Climate Variability as Part of a CSA Strategy in Rural Zambia
Climate change is posing an increasingly severe challenge to agricultural livelihoods due to increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Livelihood diversification can play an important role in decreasing food insecurity and vulnerability under these challenges. This paper contributes to the literature on livelihood diversification and vulnerability under climate change to assess the role of diversification as part of a Climate-S…
Irrigation infrastructure and farm productivity in the Philippines
Effects of changes in rainfall and temperature on age- and sex-specific patterns of rural-urban migration in sub-Saharan Africa
We evaluate how changes in weather patterns affected rural-urban migration across 41 sub-Saharan African countries, by age and sex, over the 1980–2015 period. We combine recent age- and sex-specific estimates of net rural-urban migration with historical data on rainfall and temperature from the Climate Research Unit (CRU). We also compare standard unweighted estimates of rainfall and temperature to estimates weighted by the proportion of the coun…
Climate resilience in rural Zambia
This paper aims at identifying whether and how sustainable land management practices and livelihood diversification strategies have contributed to moderating the impacts of the El Niño-related drought in Zambia. This is done using a specifically designed survey called the El Niño Impact Assessment Survey, which is combined with the Rural Agricultural Livelihoods Surveys, as well as high resolution rainfall data at the ward level over 34 years. Th…
Youth Inclusion in Rural Transformation
The increasing numbers of rural youth in developing countries and their perceived disenchantment with the society and economy have raised policy concerns across the developed and developing world. Youth (ages 15 to 24) make up one in five people in developing countries, and one in eight in the developed world. Of the 1.2 billion youth in the world, nearly 1 billion reside in developing countries, and their numbers are growing far more rapidly tha…
Youth and Adult Agrifood System Employment in Developing Regions
Using a unique dataset covering 178,794 households with 460,654 individuals spanning Africa, Asia, and Latin America, we explore employment of youths across rural zones (peri-urban, intermediate, hinterland) and urban areas. Using full-time equivalents (FTEs), we compare own-farming versus farm-wage labour, and nonfarm wage- and self-employment. Nonfarm includes: (a) agrifood system (AFS) jobs post-farmgate, in food processing, wholesale, logisti…
Rural Youth Welfare along the Rural-urban Gradient
We use survey data on 170,000 households from Asia, Latin America and Africa, global geo-spatial data, and an economic geography framework to highlight five findings about rural youth in developing countries. First, the youth share in population is falling rapidly, and youth numbers are stable or falling slowly everywhere, except in Africa. In Africa, youth share is rising very slowly, but numbers are set to double in 40 years. Second, large majo…
The effect of agricultural programs on dietary diversity and food security
The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains
There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households. This study quantifies the environmental and social hidden costs of coffee value chains in three countries in Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania) to guide …
Economics (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Agricultural economics (7 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (7 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Livelihood (5 works) · Natural resource economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works)