Eduardo Zegarra Méndez
Senior Researcher
PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics - University of Wisconsin
ezegarra@grade.org.pe
Eduardo Zegarra is an economist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and has a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin, specializing in rural development and natural resource management. His dissertation explores the workings and failures of the water market in Chile.
He has researched and published on a wide variety of topics, such as land and water management in Peruvian agriculture, the workings of agricultural markets and institutions providing agricultural services, risk management and market failures. He has also led impact evaluations into large-scale public sector projects in Peru, such as the Special Land Titling Program (PETT), the Sub-sectorial Irrigation Program (PSI), the social fund FONCODES and the agricultural health development program PRODESA of the SENASA. He has participated in consultancies on agricultural and rural issues in Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Nicaragua. He possesses extensive experience in the design, implementation and analysis of economic-productive surveys in rural and urban areas, and has held lecturing positions at the Catholic University and the La Molina Agrarian University, both in Peru. Between 2001 and 2003, he was the General Manager of Agricultural Information for the Ministry of Agriculture, where he was responsible for producing and disseminating agricultural statistics and for implementing the agricultural information system nationwide.
He has been a Senior Researcher at GRADE since 2004.
Publications
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JournalLa reconnexion agricole Nord-Sud. Quels enjeux pour les pays en développement?
La libéralisation commerciale agricole au Pérou: marchés, comportements et institutions entre ruptures et continuités
2010 Eduardo Zegarra, Álvaro Espinoza
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Shock de precios y vulnerabilidad alimentaria de los hogares peruanos
2009 Eduardo Zegarra, Jorge Tuesta
En el estudio se cuantifica los efectos económicos del súbito aumento de los precios de alimentos en los hogares peruanos durante 2007-2008 e identifica a los hogares en situación de vulnerabilidad alimentaria.
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Chapter in BookBoom agrícola, pobreza y desigualdad en el Perú rural
Crecimiento agrícola, pobreza y desigualdad en el Perú rural
2009 Eduardo Zegarra, Jorge Tuesta
Este estudio muestra que el "boom agrícola" ocurrido durante la última década en algunas áreas de la agricultura peruana ha tenido impactos limitados en la reducción de la pobreza rural.
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Titling, credit constraints, and rental markets in rural Peru: exploring channels and conditioned impacts
2008 Eduardo Zegarra, Javier Escobal, Úrsula Aldana
This paper constructs a baseline and pursues an overall impact evaluation of the PETT (Programa Especial de Titulación de Tierras), an ambitious rural titling program created in Peru in 1992.
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Projects
- Sub-regional Irrigation ProgramApril 2008 - June 2008
- Baseline of the Sub-sectorial Irrigations Program (PSI)January 2008
- Study on Public Expenditure in Agriculture in GuatemalaJanuary 2008
- Agenda para el desarrollo agrario de la sierra peruanaMay 2007
- Manual para capacitación en el uso de instrumentos económicos y financieros para la gestión del aguaJune 2007
- Monitoreo de Sierra ExportadoraJune 2007
- Programa de Desarrollo de la Sanidad Agropecuaria – PRODESA” – (II Fase)June 2007
- Programa de Desarrollo de la Sanidad Agropecuaria – PRODESAJune 2007
- Actualización del Perfil de la Pobreza en el PerúJune 2007
- Estimación del consumo de agua a nivel predial en valles de la costa peruanaMay 2015
Media
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The agrarian crisis and Castillo’s goverment, by Eduardo Zegarra
September 19, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The announced second agrarian reform, initially thought of as a proposal for profound changes in the way of governing to guide comprehensive policies and budget resources towards the forgotten family farming, has become a slogan almost devoid of any concrete content”. Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra writes about the agrarian crisis and the challenges facing the new minister of agriculture Jenny Ocampo. […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion on the delay in the purchase of fertilizers. Via RPP News
September 14, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The big campaign starts in August until December. Approximately 70% of the so-called transitory crops are sown, which require a crucial first fertilization in the first three months. Unfortunately, we are about to lose this opportunity. that this will lead to a drop in production in several crops, which will generate inflationary pressure on food […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion in Exitosa about the delay of fertilizers and Fertibono
September 1, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The Fertibono is a monetary transfer for the balance of the amount that is not going to be spent on the purchase of urea. A fairly small amount where a fixed amount of money is going to be given to farmers in a register and it is not going to have more relationship with whether […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on the stagnation of fertilizer purchases: “The first negative effect is on the producer”
August 25, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The first negative effect is on the producer with the sharp rise in costs and the drop in income (…) It is complex to predict the possible impact, but a lower supply generates inflationary pressure.” Our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion on the impacts of the delay of the purchase of fertilizers on the economy of […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in La República: international price of urea shows decline
June 11, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The international price of urea has started to decline, which is good news. The problem is that this drives demand in preparation for the next campaign. Acquiring urea in the commercial circuit in this context is even more complicated.” Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, shared his opinion in La República on the second call to obtain an […]
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La gestión del agua: cambiamos o perdemos
December 17, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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¿Sabemos que el agua es un bien especial?, por Eduardo Zegarra
October 10, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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¿Cuánto contenido de azúcar existe en los productos industrializados que consumen niños y adolescentes?
October 1, 2014 Health and nutrition
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¿Manipulando cifras?
May 26, 2009 Rural development and agriculture
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Boom agrícola y persistencia de la pobreza rural
April 1, 2009 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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Eduardo Zegarra in El Comercio: FAE Agro will go to auction with 70% of the agricultural season advanced
September 24, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
The Business Support Fund for Agriculture (FAE Agro) will enter the auction with a trust contract approved yesterday by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. These resources seek to finance the agricultural campaign that began in July. However, according to Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, “three months into the season, we already have between 60% and 70% […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts in Caretas on food insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic
June 18, 2020 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
“In May a INEI report came out showing 14% of households in Metropolitan Lima and Callao could not buy meat, fish and eggs. The main reason has a lot to do with many families —socioeconomic levels D and E— don’t have enough money”. Our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, shares his thoughts in this Caretas‘ article that addresses the […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
The Guardian interviews Eduardo Zegarra about contagions in wholesale markets in Lima
May 17, 2020 Health and nutrition
“Markets were probably the biggest vector of infection which is why Peru’s quarantine did not work as it should have”. The Guardian interviews our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, for an article on contagions in wholesale markets in four Latin American cities: Lima, São Paulo, Mexico City and Bogotá.
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra discusses the state of Peruvian agriculture in times of the coronavirus
March 31, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“We calculate how many have a cell phone to access the voucher and no member of more than 300,000 agricultural families has a cell phone […] They do indeed require resources to be able to even eat, because they do not themselves produce all the food they require for their own food. There is need for […]
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Eduardo Zegarra gives his thoughts about the 35% increase in the agricultural public budget for 2019
September 1, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
La República newspaper gathered the thoughts of our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, about the 35% increase in the agricultural public budget for the year 2019. Regarding investment in irrigation, he said that priority should be given to execution in the areas of the Sierra “where the gap in access to water is quite strong”. Regarding […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Canal N: “It is urgent to have a food crisis committee”
May 25, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“In the first place, we must have a food crisis committee with various ministries, civil society and agrarian associations. Second, we must put together a strong and serious program to buy fertilizers worldwide with diplomatic deployment and commercial attaches. In the short term , we need at least 300,000 tons of nitrogenous fertilizers to cover […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Exitosa: “Peru is one of the countries most affected by this food crisis”
May 20, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“Peru is one of the most vulnerable countries facing a food crisis. We are an importer of basic foods, such as cereals and oilseeds, which are rising a lot in price internationally, and we are also total importers of chemical fertilizers, which they are scarce worldwide. There is enormous concern about this, because if we […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on TV Peru: “We are passing the bill for many years of not thinking in terms of food security”
May 20, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“If the problem of the lack of fertilizers persists and if the measures that are being taken are not effective, because there is concern that this emergency decree has little effectiveness and efficiency, we would be facing a complicated situation. We have expensive imported food and national food that would also begin to be scarce. […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra in RPP News: demands around the second agrarian reform
April 23, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The ministry is dedicated to things that do not really prioritize the family farming agenda. Among them, an alleged unlocking of the Chavimochic project, which is highly controversial, and a first approach by the minister saying that it will be a priority of his management to grant new exonerations for the agro-export sector. All this […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra in La República: “The agrarian reform is about to become an unfulfilled promise”
April 22, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The government is in a very serious problem, without urea, the next agricultural campaign will be a total failure and there will be a drop in production that could reach 30%. […] One of the proposals of the second agrarian reform is to build national capacity to produce fertilizers”. Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE and […]
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Presentations
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Guerra, crisis agraria y alimentaria en el Perú
Hotel Meliá, 4 August, 2022
Presentación de Eduardo Zegarra en conversatorio de CooperAcción y RedGE Peru sobre los impactos del conflicto Rusia-Ucrania en América Latina y el Perú.
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Efectos dinámicos del programa Juntos en decisiones productivas de los hogares rurales del Perú
MIDIS, 26 August, 2016
Diálogo Ministerial MIDIS-CIES