Publications

· A1 Articles in scientific journal, with peer review, indexed in Web of Science (SCIE, SSCI and/or AHCI)

(In brackets: Citations in Web of Science (WoS) reported in University of Antwerp system on 5/10/2020; by Google Scholar (GS) on 5/10/2020)

Spielman, David J.; Lecoutere, Els; Makhija, Simrin; and Van Campenhout, Bjorn. Information and communications technology (ICT) and agricultural extension in developing countries. Annual Review of Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-101520-080657 ((Journal Impact Factor (2020): 5.184)

Lecoutere, Els, and Eva Wuyts. 2020. Confronting the Wall of Patriarchy: Does participatory intrahousehold Decision Making empower Women in agricultural Households? The Journal of Development Studies DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1849620 (Journal Impact Factor (2019): 1.596)

Karimli, Leyla, Lecoutere, Els, Wells, Christine. R., and Leyla Ismayilova. 2021. More assets, more decision-making power? mediation model in a cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of the graduation program on women's empowerment in burkina faso. World Development, 137, 105159–105159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105159 (Journal Impact Factor (2019): 3.869)

Van Campenhout, Bjorn,Spielman, David J., and Els Lecoutere. 2020. Information and communication technologies to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Uganda. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 00(00): 1–21. doi:10.1002/ajae.12089 (Journal Impact Factor (2019): 3.028)

Lecoutere, Els, and Laurence Jassogne. 2019. Fairness and efficiency in smallholder farming : the relation with intrahousehold decision-making, The Journal of Development Studies, 55(1), 57-82.https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1400014 (Journal Impact Factor (2019): 1.596) (Citations: WoS 3; GS 10)

Lecoutere, Els. 2017. The impact of agricultural co-operatives on women's empowerment : evidence from Uganda, Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management, 5: 14-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcom.2017.03.001 (Citations: WoS 2; GS 22)

Lecoutere, Els. 2016. Participatory gender-responsive monitoring of women land rights : empowering and smart, Development in practice, 26: 960-968. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2016.1210087

Lecoutere, Els, D’Exelle, Ben and Bjorn Van Campenhout. 2015. Sharing Common Resources in Patriarchal and Status-Based Societies: Evidence from Tanzania. Feminist Economics, 21(3): 142-167.doi:10.1080/13545701.2015.1024274 (Journal Impact factor (2019): 1.406) (Citations: WoS 5; GS 11)

Van Campenhout Björn, D'Exelle Ben, and Els Lecoutere. 2015. Equity efficiency optimizing resource allocation : the role of time preferences in a repeated irrigation game, Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics, 77: 234-253. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12058 (Journal Impact Factor 2019): 0.918) (Citations: WoS 5; GS 6)

Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Lecoutere, Els and Ben D'Exelle. 2015. Inter-Temporal and Spatial Price Dispersion Patterns and the Well-Being of Maize Producers in Southern Tanzania. Journal of African Economies, 24(2): 230-253. doi: 10.1093/jae/ejv002 (Journal Impact factor (2019): 1) (Citations: WoS 4; GS 18)

D'Exelle, Ben, Van Campenhout, Bjorn and Els Lecoutere. 2012. Equity-efficiency Trade-offs in Rural Tanzania: Evidence from a Water Sharing Experiment. World Development, 40(12): 2537–2551. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.026 (Journal Impact Factor (2019): 3.869) (Citations: WoS 18; GS 27)

D'Exelle, Ben, Van Campenhout, Bjorn and Els Lecoutere. 2012. Modernization and time preferences in Tanzania: evidence from a large-scale elicitation exercise. Journal of Development Studies, 48(4): 564-580. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2011.604411 (Journal Impact Factor (2019): 1.596) (Citations: WoS 1; GS 9)

Lecoutere, Els. 2011. Institutions under construction: resolving resource conflicts in Tanzanian irrigation schemes. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 5(2): 252-273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2011.571388(Journal Impact Factor (2019): 1.026) (Citations: WoS 11; GS 32)

Lecoutere, Els, Vlassenroot, Koen and Timothy Raeymaekers. 2009. Conflict, institutional changes and food insecurity in eastern DR Congo. Afrika Focus 22(2): 41-63. www.gap.ugent.be/africafocus/pdf/3Vol22_2_Lecoutere.pdf (Citations: GS 16)

· A3 Articles in scientific journal, awaiting classification as A1 or A2

Vorley, William, Lecoutere, Els, Mubiru, Sarah, Lunduka, Rodney, Ubels, Jan, Conilh de Beyssac, Bernard and Daniel Ikaaba. 2015. Growing inclusion? Insights from value chain development in Ugandan oilseeds, IIED, London., http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/16563IIED.pdf (Citations: GS 3)

Kramm, Johanna, Lecoutere, Els and Lars Wirkus. 2012. Water and Conflict Prevention. Microcon Policy Briefing 16. http://www.microconflict.eu/publications/policy_briefings.html

· H2 Chapters in book, not included in H1

Lecoutere, Els. 2008. Wateronzekerheid in ruraal Tanzania : een armoedeval… voor sommigen. In: Doom, Ruddy (ed.) Conflict en ontwikkeling : overleven in de grensgebieden van de globalisering. Academia Press, 451-475.

· Doctoral dissertation

Lecoutere, Els. 2011. Sharing scarce common resources. Local water governance in semi-arid sub-Sahara Africa. Dissertation presented in the fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Political Sciences. Ghent University 193 p. https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4129100

· Contributions in newspaper or magazine

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Els Lecoutere, David Spielman. 2021. What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data? Engendering Data Blog. CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) https://pim.cgiar.org/2021/12/14/what-can-we-really-learn-from-sex-disaggregated-data/

Els Lecoutere, Alan de Brauw, and Marrit van den Berg. 2021. Exploring COVID-19’s impacts on women in southern Bangladesh. CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). https://a4nh.cgiar.org/2021/05/13/exploring-covid-19s-impacts-on-women-in-southern-bangladesh/

EI Lecoutere, ID Brouwer, MM van den Berg, R Ruben. 2020.Rapid appraisal of food system risks due to Covid-19 measures: Voices from the field. Wageningen University & Research. https://knowledge4food.net/rapid-appraisal-of-food-system-risks-with-covid-19-measures-voices-from-the-field/

Lecoutere, Els; Van Campenhout, Bjorn; and Spielman, David J. (2020.05.08) Providing information to empower women in agriculture: Evidence from Uganda. VoxDev Agriculture. https://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/providing-information-empower-women-agriculture-evidence-uganda

Lecoutere, Els; Spielman, David J.; and Van Campenhout, Bjorn (2020.03.9). Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization. EnGendering Data blog. CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM). https://pim.cgiar.org/2020/03/09/womens-empowerment-agricultural-extension-and-digitalization/

Els In The Field - A Scientifically Sound Gender Approach (2019.03.07), Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung, Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=MJu3pIAmHfE

Blog: Els in the Field (2019.03.07), by Thoma J., Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung, Retrieved from https://www.hrnstiftung.org/els-in-the-field/

‘The impact of intra household decision making on the sustainability, efficiency and equitability of household farming in sub-Saharan Africa. Making smallholder farming more equitable’ Featured in “Results in brief” on the CORDIS website by the European Commission: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/200274/brief/en

Lecoutere, Els. 2018. A Scientifically Sound Gender Approach, The Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung blog, The Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung. Retrieved from: http://www.hrnstiftung.org/projekte/a-scientifically-sound-gender-approach

Lecoutere, Els. 2018. Translating my research into Smurf, The Marie Curie Alumni Association Blog, Medium. Retrieved from: https://medium.com/marie-curie-alumni/translating-my-research-into-smurf-a4199e3e423

Gender en collectieve actie bij de smurfen (2018, May 1), Featured in the section "Poepsimpel" of the VRT programme "Iedereen beroemd", https://www.een.be/iedereen-beroemd/smurfen-in-de-samenleving (version with English subtitles available on request)

The kindness of neighbours. (2015, August 29). The Economist, http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21662596-new-paper-asks-why-some-tanzanian-farmers-are-more-selfish-others

· Minutes or reports

Farnworth, Cathy Rozel; Lecoutere, Els; Galiè, Alessandra; Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Elias, Marlène; Ihalainen, Markus; Roeven, Lara; Bharati, Preeti; Valencia, Ana Maria Paez; Crossland, Mary; Vinceti, Barbara; and Monterroso, Iliana. 2021. Methodologies for researching feminisation of agriculture what do they tell us? IFPRI Discussion Paper 2077. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134907

Spielman, David J.; Lecoutere, Els; Makhija, Simrin; Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2021. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and agricultural extension in developing countries. PIM Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134865

Lecoutere, Els, and Chu, Lan. 2021. Changing intrahousehold decision making to empower women in their households. A mixed methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south-west Tanzania. IOB Discussion Paper 2021.06. Antwerp: The Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp. Retrieved from: https://medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/8518/2dc862a9-7107-49d2-acdd-120a51e4fdd9.pdf

Lecoutere, Els; Van den berg, Marrit; and de Brauw, Alan. 2021. Effective food systems innovations: An inventory of evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Viet Nam, and other low-and middle-income countries. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2022. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134401

Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Lecoutere, Els; and Spielman, David J. 2021. Bragging, shirking, and hiding: Spousal disagreement among Ugandan maize farmers. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2019. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134389

E Lecoutere, M Van den Berg, A de Brauw (2021) Changes in women’s empowerment in the household, women’s diet diversity, and their relationship against the background of COVID-19 in Southern Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2016. https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134380

Lecoutere, Els; Spielman, David J.; and Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2020. Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133615

Lecoutere, Els; Spielman, David J.; and Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2019. Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role model effects in rural Uganda. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1889. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133523 (Citations: GS 5)

Desalegne Gelagay, Megos, Lecoutere, Els. 2019. Did conditional cash transfers in the Productive Safety Net Program empower women in Tigray, north-east Ethiopia? IOB Discussion Paper 2019.01. Antwerp: The Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp. Retrieved from: https://www.uantwerpen.be/images/uantwerpen/container2673/files/Publications/DP/2019/dp-201901.pdf

Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Spielman, David J., Lecoutere, Els. 2018. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers : experimental evidence from Uganda. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01778. Washington, D.C., International Food Policy Research Institute.

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Lecoutere, Els, and Björn Van Campenhout. [2018]. Joint forces - The impact of intrahousehold cooperation on welfare in East African agricultural households, IOB Working Paper 2018.11. Antwerp: The Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp. Retrieved from: https://www.uantwerpen.be/images/uantwerpen/container2673/files/Publications/WP/2018/wp-201811.pdf

Lecoutere, Els. 2018. Monitoring changes in intrahousehold decision-making and evaluating its impact: A toolkit. IOB Analysis and Policy Brief N°28. Antwerp: The Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp. Retrieved from: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/iob/publications/analyses-and-policy-briefs/apb-2018/apb-28/

Lecoutere, Els 2018. Making spouses cooperate in Ugandan agricultural households – Experimental evidence of distributional treatment effects, IOB Working Paper 2018.06. Antwerp: The Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp. Retrieved from: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/iob/publications/working-papers/wp-2018/wp-201806/

Lecoutere, Els 2018. Improving intrahousehold cooperation for efficient smallholder farming. A field experiment in central Uganda, IOB Working Paper 2018.07. Antwerp: The Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp. Retrieved from: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/iob/publications/working-papers/wp-2018/wp-201807/ (Citations: GS 2)

Lecoutere, Els, and Eva Wuyts. 2017. Confronting the wall of patriarchy: Does participatory intrahousehold decision-making empower women in agricultural households? IOB Working paper 2017.13. Antwerp: The Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp. Retrieved from: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/iob/publications/working-papers/wp-2017/wp-201713/ (Citations: GS 3)

Van Campenhout Björn, Lecoutere, Els, and David J. Spielman. 2017. ICT-mediated agricultural knowledge transfer in Uganda: What works? AEA RCT Registry (American Economic Association's registry for randomized controlled trials) Retrieved from: https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/2153/history/18586

Lecoutere Els, and Laurence Jassogne. 2016. "We're in this together": changing intra-household decision making for more cooperative smallholder farming, IOB Working paper 2016.02. Antwerp: The Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp. Retrieved from: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/iob/publications/working-papers/wp-2016/wp-201602/ (Citations: GS 8)

Lecoutere, Els. 2012. A Case Study of the P’KWI Farmer–to–Farmer Cooperative. Report prepared for SNV Netherlands Development Organisation. SNV Uganda: Kampala. 57p. http://www.snvworld.org/en/countries/uganda/publications/pkwi-making-the-best-better

Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Lecoutere, Els, D'Exelle, Ben, Trading in turbulent times: Smallholder maize marketing in the southern highlands, Tanzania, - Washington, D.C., International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011,15p.(IFPRI discussion papers ; 1099) (Citations in GS: 4)

D'Exelle, Ben, Lecoutere, Els, Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Social status and bargaining when resources are scarce : evidence from a field lab experiment, - Norwich, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science. University of East Anglia, 2010,38p.(CBESS Discussion Paper ; 10-09) (Citations in GS: 2)

Lecoutere, Els, Institutions Under Construction: Resolving Resource Conflicts in Tanzanian irrigation schemes, - Sussex, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, 2010,32p.(MICROCON Research Working Paper)

Lecoutere, Els, D'Exelle, Ben, Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Who engages in water scarcity conflicts? A field experiment with irrigators in semiarid Africa, ISBN 978-1-85864-942-0 - Brighton, A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict, Institute of Development Studies, 2010,29p. (MICROCON Research Working Paper) (Citations in GS: 28)

Lecoutere, Els, Titeca, Kristof, The OPEC boys and the political economy of smuggling in northern Uganda,Brighton, HiCN Households in Conflict Network , no. 36 (2007). (Citations in GS: 8)