{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:03:58","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rserra\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Profile<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-full alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rserra\/files\/Serra-photo1_25_.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Renata Serra\" class=\"wp-image-193\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Renata Serra (PhD Economics, Cambridge University, UK) is Instructional Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.ufl.edu\/\">Center for African Studies<\/a> at the University of Florida and core Faculty for the <a href=\"https:\/\/mdp.africa.ufl.edu\/\">UF Master in Sustainable Development Program<\/a>. She is an active member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sahelresearch.africa.ufl.edu\/\">UF Sahel Research Group<\/a> and of the <a href=\"https:\/\/foodsystems.ifas.ufl.edu\/\">Global Food System Institute<\/a> at UF\/IFAS, for which she coordinates the Sub-Saharan Africa working group. Renata is also affiliated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/economics.clas.ufl.edu\/\">Department of Economics<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/wst.ufl.edu\/\">Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women&#8217;s Studies<\/a>. An economist by training, she has 25 years experience of research, teaching and consultancy on issues of African development, with a focus on the African Sahel region (Mali, Senegal, Niger, Chad and Mauritania) as well as East Africa (Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda). She was part of the Management Entity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/livestocklab.ifas.ufl.edu\/\">USAID Feed the Future Innovation lab for Livestock Systems<\/a> at UF\/IFAS, until its termination in February 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Political economy of agriculture; livestock sector development; (measures of) resilience to climate change;\u00a0 (measures of) women\u2019s empowerment; gender and intersectionality in agricultural and livestock value chains; social capital and collective action; microfinance; youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rserra@ufl.edu\">rserra@ufl.edu<\/a><br>\nPhone: (352) 846-0473<br>\n421 Grinter Hall<br>\nPO Box 115560<br>\nUniversity of Florida<br>\nGainesville, FL 32611-5560<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rserra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rserra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rserra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rserra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rserra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rserra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rserra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rserra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}