Search Results - "Lecoutere, Els"

Equity-Efficiency Trade-Offs in Irrigation Water Sharing: Evidence from a Field Lab in Rural Tanzania by D’Exelle, Ben, Lecoutere, Els, Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…This article studies how users of scarce common water resources deal with equity-efficiency trade-offs. For this purpose, we conduct a field lab experiment in…”
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Where women in agri-food systems are at highest climate risk: a methodology for mapping climate–agriculture–gender inequality hotspots by Lecoutere, Els, Mishra, Avni, Singaraju, Niyati, Koo, Jawoo, Azzarri, Carlo, Chanana, Nitya, Nico, Gianluigi, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…Climate change poses a greater threat for more exposed and vulnerable countries, communities and social groups. People whose livelihood depends on the…”
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Editorial: Beyond the Food Systems Framework: Food System Transitions Toward Sustainable Healthy Diets in Low and Middle-Income Countries by van den Berg, Marrit, Lecoutere, Els, Termote, Céline, Hunter, Danny

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Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise by D'Exelle, Ben, van Campenhout, Bjorn, Lecoutere, Els

“…Assumptions about individual time preferences are important for explanations of poverty and development. Data from a large-scale elicitation exercise in…”
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Confronting the Wall of Patriarchy: Does Participatory Intrahousehold Decision Making Empower Women in Agricultural Households? by Lecoutere, Els, Wuyts, Eva

“…This mixed methods study investigates the impact of introducing participatory intrahousehold decision making in Ugandan agricultural households on multiple…”
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Supporting women's empowerment by changing intra‐household decision‐making: A mixed‐methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south‐west Tanzania by Lecoutere, Els, Chu, Lan

“…Abstract Motivation In rural sub‐Saharan Africa, patriarchal social norms and customs often lead to unequal resource access, decision‐making power, and…”
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The impact of agricultural co-operatives on women’s empowerment: Evidence from Uganda by Lecoutere, Els

“…•Women’s membership of an agricultural co-operative increased their households’ food and basic need security and wellbeing.•Women’s agronomic knowledge and…”
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Fairness and Efficiency in Smallholder Farming: The Relation with Intrahousehold Decision-Making by Lecoutere, Els, Jassogne, Laurence

“…Agricultural households face collective action dilemmas when making decisions about investments in their common household farm and the allocation of resources…”
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Information and Communication Technologies to Provide Agricultural Advice to Smallholder Farmers: Experimental Evidence from Uganda by Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Spielman, David J., Lecoutere, Els

“…Agricultural advisory services generally rely on interpersonal knowledge transfers by agricultural extension agents who visit farmers to provide information…”
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Participatory gender-responsive monitoring of women land rights: empowering and smart by Lecoutere, Els

“…This viewpoint argues that a genuine participatory approach to defining a theory of change and outcome indicators of enhanced women land and property rights is…”
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Empowering women through targeting information or role models: Evidence from an experiment in agricultural extension in Uganda by Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J., Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…•We test the differential impact of who is targeted with agricultural extension information within the household (husband and/or wife) and the messenger of…”
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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 by Karimli, Leyla, Lecoutere, Els, Wells, Christine R., Ismayilova, Leyla

“…•The integrated graduation program improves women’s decision-making in some, but not all, decision-making domains.•Effects are stronger in group receiving…”
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Joint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households by Lecoutere, Els, Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…In low- and middle-income countries, poor cooperation between members of smallholder agricultural households may lead to inefficient allocation of productive…”
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Changes in women’s empowerment in the household, women’s diet diversity, and their relationship against the background of COVID-19 in southern Bangladesh by Lecoutere, Els, van den Berg, Marrit, de Brauw, Alan

“…The COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, associated public health measures, and people’s reactions were projected to have caused job losses among women, a decline…”
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Hiding or Pleasing: Spousal Disagreement Among Ugandan Maize Farmers by Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J.

“…To gain a better understanding of intrahousehold bargaining processes, surveys increasingly collect data from co-heads individually, especially on…”
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Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries by Spielman, David, Lecoutere, Els, Makhija, Simrin, Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…With new possibilities offered by information and communications technology (ICT), an abundance of products, services, and projects has emerged with the…”
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Institutions under construction: resolving resource conflicts in Tanzanian irrigation schemes by Lecoutere, Els

“…Water governance in Tanzania's small-scale irrigation schemes has become ever more challenging because of increasing market penetration, declining…”
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Fostering an enabling environment for equality and empowerment in agri-food systems: An assessment at multiple scales by Lecoutere, Els, Achandi, Esther Leah, Ampaire, Edidah Lubega, Fischer, Gundula, Gumucio, Tatiana, Najjar, Dina, Singaraju, Niyati

“…Inequalities by gender and intersecting sources of social differentiation in access to resources, exercise of agency, and desirable outcomes persist in…”
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Adolescents' capabilities and aspirations across gender and generations in Amhara, Ethiopia by Alwab, Bethelihem Gebre, Lecoutere, Els, Jones, Nicola

“…Insights into the role of changing historical-political-cultural contexts and social norms in shaping adolescent girls' and boys' futures contributes to an…”
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Equity-Efficiency Optimizing Resource Allocation: The Role of Time Preferences in a Repeated Irrigation Game by Van Campenhout, Bjorn, D'Exelle, Ben, Lecoutere, Els

“…We study repeated water allocation decisions among small scale irrigation users in Tanzania. In a treatment replicating water scarcity conditions, convexities…”
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