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Tuesday, 13 de February de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra to present study on the challenges and possibilities of family farming at INEI event
Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra will present the study “Family Farming in Peru: Challenges and possibilities for its transformation in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals”, carried out within the framework of the National Call for Research 2023 of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). ZOOM Join the Zoom meeting here.
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Tuesday, 13 de February de 2024
The role of active discussion in learning about uncertain technologies
The decision to adopt one technology versus another depends on how uncertain the decision maker views each technology. Attitudes towards risk (known probabilities) and ambiguity (unknown probabilities) have been shown to partially explain the observed sub-optimal level of adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries. While social learning can help resolve associated information frictions and […]
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Thursday, 8 de February de 2024
Global exports draining local water resources: land concentration, food exports and water grabbing in the Ica Valley (Peru)
The agro-export boom is threatening the sustainability of water resources in many regions around the world. This is the case of the Ica valley in Peru, where in the last decades traditional agriculture has been replaced by big agricultural businesses to meet the growing international food demand. This has led to increasing land concentration by […]
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Thursday, 1 de February de 2024
Sub-Award Agreement for the Andes-Amazon Biodiverse Landscape
Biodiverse Landscapes Fund (BLF) is a UK Government program aimed at poverty reduction, biodiversity protection, conservation and climate change mitigation in six critical landscapes.
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Tuesday, 2 de January de 2024
Consulting services for the execution of components 2 and 3 of the project “Evidence based foundations to accelerate the allocation of capital towards public good in Peru and catalyze an impact-focused economy”
Aliados de Impacto (AdI) is a non-profit organization that seeks to catalyze the scaling of impact investment in Peru with the objective of facilitating access to capital, knowledge and networks for high-impact ventures and projects, while raising the visibility of the impact investment sector and promoting its growth at the national level. Based on the […]
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Tuesday, 2 de January de 2024
Decapitalization of Peruvian small-scale farming, by Eduardo Zegarra
“The overall picture is that of a small-scale farming with declining trends in critical assets (value of livestock stock), but especially in access to fundamental services, with declining access to titling, training, credit and technical assistance, which do not reach more than 10% of farmers nationwide.” In his new article for Noticias SER, our Senior […]
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Monday, 6 de November de 2023
GRADE researchers join SEPIA XX – Lima 2023
Our researchers will participate as authors and discussants in the biennial seminar SEPIA XX, which will be held for the first time in Lima. In this edition, the main event of the Permanent Seminar on Agricultural Research is co-organized with the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In this edition, […]
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Thursday, 26 de October de 2023
Agricultura familiar en tiempos de crisis en Perú: diagnósticos y recomendaciones
The purpose of this study is to assess the impacts of the global agrifood crisis on Peruvian family farming, as well as the policy responses and possible alternatives to address it, from the view of agrarian organizations and from a fiscal justice, food and climate perspective. This document presents a comprehensive, quantitative and qualitative assessment […]
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Monday, 11 de September de 2023
Eduardo Zegarra will give a lecture at Universidad Continental on the current situation of the agricultural sector in a context of agrifood crisis
Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra will give a lecture on the impacts of the agricultural crisis and the presence of El Niño on farmers and our society. He will also share management alternatives for a sustainable and more competitive agricultural development. The webinar is organized by the Universidad Continental Graduate School. REGISTER ONLINE Sign up […]
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Tuesday, 5 de September de 2023
Eduardo Zegarra on A Pensar Más with Rosa María Palacios: an outlook of Peruvian agriculture and food price increases
“Basically three processes have aggravated the agricultural crisis. First COVID, then the fertilizer crisis, very poorly managed, and the last has been the climate crisis, with a drought in the highlands and the coastal El Niño. If you add all this up, agricultural production has fallen 5% in the first six months of this year, […]