Carmen Diana Deere
BornAugust 1, 1945
Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA
AwardsSilvert Award
Academic background
EducationPh.D. in agricultural economics
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorAlain de Janvry
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Main interests
  • Land policy and agrarian reform
  • Rural social movements
  • Gender in Latin American development

Carmen Diana Deere (born August 1, 1945) is an American feminist economist who is an expert on land policy and agrarian reform, rural social movements, and gender in Latin American development. She has conducted extensive research on access to land, economic autonomy of rural women, and property rights in Latin America. Deere's research and work, often carried out with Magdalena León de Leal, have contributed to promoting the changes that have taken place since 1980 in the vast majority of countries in Latin America with respect to the reform of land laws, civil codes, and family matters, as well as the approval of new legislation that recognizes the equal rights of women and men, including their property rights. Deere is Professor Emeritus of Latin American studies and Food Resources Economics at the University of Florida and Professor Emeritus of FLACSO-Ecuador. She was honored with the Silvert Award in 2018.[1]

Early life and education

Carmen Diana Deere was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, August 1, 1945. She received a BA in International Politics and Economics from the University of Colorado, an MA in Development studies from The Fletcher School at Tufts University (1968), and a Ph.D. in Agricultural economics from the University of California, Berkeley (1978).[2]

Career and research

From 1992 to 2004, she served as Director of Latin American studies and the Center for Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[3][4] From 2004 to 2011, she was a professor of agricultural economics and Latin American studies at the University of Florida where from 2004 to 2009, she directed the Center for Latin American Studies. She has also been a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme on Brazil (2004)[4] and has participated in various programs on gender in Latin American universities. Between 2009 and 2010, she was a visiting researcher at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences-Ecuador where she conducted a national study on gender and asset ownership.

Deere has been the president of the Latin American Studies Association, the organization that brings together experts in Latin America from all disciplines and various occupational areas throughout the world with more than 12,000 members,[5] and the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS). She currently participates in the editorial committee of several specialized journals such as the Journal of Agrarian Change,[6] and associate editor of the journal, Feminist Economics.[3]

She has received numerous research grants, including from the Ford Foundation, to carry out a comparative study on gender and land rights in Latin America and the publications of the results (1997-2001), as well as from the World Bank, to carry out research on women and land rights in Latin America. From 2013 to 2015, funded by UN Women, Deere conducted international research, the "Gender Asset Gap Project," focused on improving statistics on gender and assets as well as analysis of women's intra-household bargaining power.[7]

Deere currently participates in the "International Panel on Social Progress" (IPSP), convened by Amartya Sen and continues to develop research in Ecuador (FLACSO) and in Cuba with the University of Havana within the collaboration project in the agricultural sector and the international economy: challenges and opportunities for Cuba and the United States.[3]

Deere was influenced by Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Marxist economists, and her early work with Magdalena León de Leal.[2]

Awards and honours

Award-winning books and papers

Selected works

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References

  1. ^ "LASA2021 / Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida" (in Spanish). Latin American Studies Association.
  2. ^ a b c d Meynen, W. (2006). "Reflections: Carmen Diana Deere". Development and Change. 37 (6): 1355–1364. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.2006.00531.x.
  3. ^ a b c "Deere". www.latam.ufl.edu. Center for Latin American Studies - University of Florida. Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Carmen Diana Deere: Former Collaborating Researcher". UNRISD. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  5. ^ "Acerca de LASA". Latin American Studies Association (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  6. ^ "Journal of Agrarian Change". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  7. ^ "In Her Name: The Gender Asset Gap Project in Ecuador, Ghana, and Karnataka, India". sites.google.com. Gender Asset Gap Project. Retrieved 2 April 2022.

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