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Derek Byerlee
Derek Byerlee is adjunct professor in the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His research interests relate to land use, land rights and large-scale land acquisition by investors. He has recently authored or co-authored The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution: Food, Feed, Fuel and Forests (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits? (World Bank, 2011) and ‘The fall and rise again of plantations in tropical Asia: History repeated?’, Land, 3, pp. 574–97 (2014).