Kiiza, D., Denagamage, T., Kiker, G., Maunsell, F., Serra, R., Harris-Coble, L., Benavides, B., and Hernandez, J.A. (forthcoming) “Seroprevalence of brucellosis in livestock and farmers’ choice of milk marketing channels in Rwamagana District, Rwanda”, American J. Tropical Medicine.
Silvert, C. J., Diaz, J., Serra, R., Cole, S., Warner, L. A., & Roberts, T. G. (2024). “Toward a gender transformative change perspective for smallholder agricultural commercialization: building consensus among experts”. Gender, Technology and Development, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2024.2416355
Serra, R, M. Kendall, A. Towns and J Hummer, (2023) “Promoting gender equity in livelihood projects: Practitioners’ perspectives through the lens of a socio-ecological model”. Progress in Development Studies 23 (1), 82-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934221129427
Kiiza, D., T. Denagamage, R. Serra, F. Maunsell, G. Kiker, B. Benavides, J. Hernandez (2023). “A systematic review of economic assessments for brucellosis control interventions in livestock populations” Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 213 (105878).
Serra, R., N. Ludgate, K.F. Dowhaniuk, S.L. McKune, and S. Russo (2022), Beyond the gender of the livestock holder: Learnings from intersectional analyses of PPR vaccine value chains in Nepal, Senegal, and Uganda, Animals, 12(3), 241; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12030241
McKune, S., Serra, R. and Touré, A. (2021) Gender and Intersectional Analysis of Livestock Vaccine Value Chains in Kaffrine, Senegal, PLoS ONE, 16(7): e0252045. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252045
Serra, R. and Davidson, K. (2021). Selling Together: The Benefits of Cooperatives to Women Honey Producers in Ethiopia. J Agricultural Economics, 72 (1): 202-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12399
Serra, R., Kiker, G.A., Minten, B., Valerio, V.C., Varijakshapanicker, P., Wane, A. (2020). Filling knowledge gaps to strengthen livestock policies in low-income countries, Global Food Security, 26, 100428, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100428
Adzawla, William; Baumüller, Heike; Donkoh, Samuel A. & Serra, Renata (2019): “Effects of climate change and livelihood diversification on the gendered productivity gap in Northern Ghana”, Climate and Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2019.1689093
Serra, R. (2014) “Cotton sector reform in Mali: Explaining the Puzzles” Journal of Modern African Studies, 52 (3): 379-402.
Theriault, V. and R. Serra (2014) “Institutional environment and technical efficiency: A stochastic frontier analysis of cotton producers in West Africa” Journal of Agricultural Economics, 65 (2): 383-405.
Theriault V., R. Serra and J. A. Sterns (2013) “Prices, institutions and determinants of supply in the Malian Cotton Sector” Agricultural Economics 44 (2 ): 161–174
Serra R. (2011) “The promises of a new social capital agenda” Journal of Development Studies 47 (8): 1109-27.
Serra R. (2009) “Child fostering in Africa: When labor and schooling motives may coexist” Journal of Development Economics vol. 88, pp. 157-170.
Serra, R. (2001) “Social capital: Meaningful and measurable at the State level?” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XXXVI, No. 8, February 24th-March 2nd.
Book chapters
Serra, R. (2021) “Agricultural Policies and Development in the Sahel” Chapter 17 in: Leonardo A. Villalón, ed. Handbook of the African Sahel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 18pp.
Serra, R. (2021) “Section IV: The Challenges of Development”, Section’s Editor Introduction, in: Leonardo A. Villalón, ed. Handbook of the African Sahel. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kjær AM and R Serra (2015) “A better fit? Policy interventions in African agricultural sectors” in: Perspective on Politics, Production and Public Administration in Africa, DIIS, Copenhagen, 191-205.
Serra, R. (2007) “Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Mali” with F. Botti and M. Cherel-Robson in: Balkenhol B, ed., Microfinance and Public Policy, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 173-183.
Serra, R. (2004) “’Putnam in India’: is social capital a meaningful and measurable concept at the Indian state level?” in: D. Bhattacharyya, N. Gopal Jayal and B. Mohapatra, eds., Interrogating Social Capital: the Indian Experience, Delhi: Sage Publication, pp. 259-295.
Serra, R. (1996) “The causes of environmental degradation: Population, scarcity and growth” in: Timothy Swanson (ed.), Economics of Environmental Degradation: Tragedy for the Commons? Edward Elgar, Aldershot, pp. 82-108.