Master
in Development Practice at UF
Dr. Renata Serra
Lecturer
421 Grinter Hall
(352) 846-0473
rserra@africa.ufl.edu
Office hours
Tuesdays: 10.45 - 12.15
Fridays: 10.30 - 12 noon
Renata Serra
Renata Serra (PhD Economics, Cambridge University, UK) is a Lecturer at the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida. An economist by training, she has 15 years experience of research, teaching and consultancy on issues of African development. Her main areas of expertise are: household economics and gender issues, child fostering and child work, social capital and rural informal institutions, and the political economy of agriculture; country: Mali.
Since 2008, she has been leading a project on cotton sector reforms for the research consortium, Africa Power and Politics (see www.institutions-africa.org). This study analyzes and compares reform processes and modalities in four African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Mali.Teaching - Fall 2011
Research
Current research projects include:
- Cotton sector reforms: a comparative study of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Mali
- Child fostering, child
work, and hazardous labor in West
Africa
- Gender, farm and off-farm activities in Africa: the role of risk and time poverty
