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Dr. Carmen Diana Deere is Director
of the Center for Latin American Studies and Professor
of Food and Resource Economics and Latin American Studies
at the University of Florida. Deere holds a Ph.D. in
Agricultural Economics from the University of California,
Berkeley, and a M.A. in Development from The Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy. She is a Past President
of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and
of the New England Council of Latin American Studies
(NECLAS). She serves on numerous editorial boards, including
World Development, and is an Associate Editor
of Feminist Economics. Deere’s primary areas of
research have been land policy and agrarian reform,
rural social movements, and gender issues in Latin American
agricultural development. She is the co-author (with
Magdalena León) of Empowering Women: Land
and Property Rights in Latin America (University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), winner of LASA’s Bryce
Wood Book Award and NECLAS’s Best Book Award.
Her recent publications include a co-authored study
for the Canadian North-South Institute and the International
Development Research Centre, Land and Development
in Latin America: Openings for Policy Research
(2005) and a co-edited special issue of Feminist
Economics (2006) on Women and the Distribution
of Wealth. She is currently co-editing a volume on the
rural social movements in Latin America
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