Aslihan Arslan is an economist with 15 years of experience in conducting policy relevant applied economics research on a wide range of topics. She has published many articles on agricultural productivity, rural poverty, climate smart agriculture, rural transformation, youth employment, migration, and climate change. Prior to re-joining FAO, she has worked as a senior economist at the Research and Impact Assessment (RIA) division of IFAD, where she led numerous impact assessments and IFAD’s corporate impact reporting using a unique approach. She has also co-lead IFAD’s flagship publication called Rural Development Report on Investing in Rural Youth in 2019. Between 2011 and 2016, Aslihan has worked as a Natural Resource Economist at the Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA) of FAO, where she focused primarily creating evidence on Climate Smart Agriculture in Zambia, Viet Nam and Malawi. Before her UN career, she has worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Economist at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany, where she conducted research on migration, inequality and poverty, as well as the impacts of trademarking on Ethiopian coffee prices.
She holds MSc and PhD degrees in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Davis, where she specialized on agricultural development and natural resource economics. Her dissertation was an investigation into the subjective values of traditional maize varieties for smallholders in rural Mexico using theoretical and empirical modeling.
Dr. Aslihan Arslan
Dear participants,
As we are currently working on shaping SOFA 2024, I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the valuable contributions we have received, both through the submission template and the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based interviewer application.
We received 68 submissions in total, covering a wide range of methods, approaches and agrifood system components from different stakeholders. The submissions are being reviewed by the SOFA team to select pertinent case studies to feature in the report considering the relevance and contributions to diversity (geographic, sectoral and methodological) of each case. The selected studies will contribute to the writing process of SOFA 2024 on “The use of true cost accounting to inform agrifood systems transformation” to be published in October 2024.
Stay tuned…
Thank you!
SOFA team
Dr. Aslihan Arslan
Dear FSN Community,
As we are currently working on shaping SOFA 2024, I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the valuable contributions we have received so far, both through the submission template and the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based interviewer application. We are closely following the submissions and expect to see an increased pace of promising submissions, such as the ones coming from TMG-Think Tank for Sustainability and the Food Insecurity Observatory. Your valuable inputs are truly appreciated!
We currently have case studies covering more than 20 countries (including those we have commissioned) and are aiming to increase our coverage in general and specifically of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region. If you have not yet submitted your contribution or if you know of colleagues in the LAC region who could provide valuable insights, we invite you to share this call for submissions with them.
I would like to kindly remind that the extended submission deadline is January 29th.
Thank you and we look forward to receiving your submissions!
Aslihan