Derek Byerlee
Georgetown University
143 Papers
1.5K Citations
Derek Byerlee is an academic researcher from Georgetown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Productivity. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 143 publications. Previous affiliations of Derek Byerlee include World Bank & International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.
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Papers
World development report 2008 : agriculture for development
Robert Townsend,Elisabeth Sadoulet,Alain de Janvry,Derek Byerlee,Irina I. Klytchnikova +4 more
- 01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: Agriculture is a vital development tool for achieving the Millennium Development Goal that calls for halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger as mentioned in this paper, which is the overall message of this year's World Development Report (WDR), the 30th in the series.
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Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?
Klaus Deininger,Derek Byerlee,Jonathan Lindsay,Andrew Norton,Harris Selod,Mercedes Stickler +5 more
- 10 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The lack of reliable information has made it difficult to understand what has been actually happening as discussed by the authors, which has raised serious concerns about the danger of neglecting local rights and other problems.
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Agriculture for Development: Toward a New Paradigm
TL;DR: A new paradigm is needed that recognizes agriculture's multiple functions for development in that emerging context: triggering economic growth, reducing poverty, narrowing income disparities, providing food security, and delivering environmental services as mentioned in this paper.
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The Rise of Large Farms in Land Abundant Countries: Do They Have a Future?
Klaus Deininger,Derek Byerlee +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify factors underlying the dominance of owner-operated farms and ways in which these may change with development, and highlight that an assessment of the advantages of large operations, together with information on endowments, can provide input into strategy formulation at the country level.
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