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Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

  • 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, Animals12(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.