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.
[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.
[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.