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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Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú
2007 Eduardo Zegarra, Veronica Minaya, Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce, Juana Kuramoto, Manuel Glave, Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo, Juan Jose Diaz, Nancy Birdsall, Rachel Menezes, Maximo Torero, José Deustua, Manuel Hernández, Santiago Cueto, Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Martin Valdivia, Nestor Valdivia
Este libro recoge las Mimeos presentadas en la conferencia Investigación, políticas y desarrollo, realidad en el marco del 25 aniversario del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo.
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Chapter in BookMovimientos sociales y desarrollo territorial rural en América Latina
El Proyecto Olmos en un territorio árido de la costa peruana
2007 Eduardo Zegarra, Maria Teresa Ore, Manuel Glave
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Minería y economía de los hogares en la sierra peruana: impactos y espacios de conflicto
2007 Eduardo Zegarra, José Carlos Orihuela, Maritza Paredes
Este estudio es una exploración cuantitativa del impacto de la actividad minero-metálica en los hogares de la sierra peruana, en el que hemos empleado métodos estándares de evaluación de impactos.
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Chapter in BookInvestigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú
Gasto público, productividad e ingresos agrarios en el Perú: avances de investigación y resultados empíricos propios
2007 Eduardo Zegarra, Verónica Minaya
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Projects
- Estudio sobre gasto público agrario en HondurasMay 2007
- Titulación rural, mercados de tierras e inversiones en actividades agrícolas y no agrícolas en el Perú, explorando impactos y canales de transmisiónSeptember 2006
- Sistema de Administración de TierrasAugust 2006
- Diseño de Políticas Regionales para el Desarrollo CajamarcaMay 2006
- A new scheme of agricultural water tariffsJanuary 2006
- Programa Innovativo para el acceso de Jóvenes Rurales a la Caficultura ColombianaDecember 2005
- Minería e Ingresos Rurales: entendiendo las bases microeconómicas del conflictoDecember 2005
- The National Agricultural Insurance Commission policy and the impact of covariate and idiosyncratic risks on Peruvian Coast farmersJuly 2005
- Preparación de Agenda Priorizada de Reformas o Tareas Pendientes en la Administración Pública del Sector AgriculturaJune 2005
- Public expenditure, rural growth and poverty in the countries of the Andean CommunityMay 2005
Media
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Eduardo Zegarra on Canal N: political and productive measures in the face of the agricultural crisis
June 9, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“About 500,000 small and medium-sized producers use fertilizers more intensively. The hardest hit of this crisis is concentrated on them and policies should focus on them. In the approach that is being made there there is a first mistake, because it is being said that this is a program to alleviate poverty, when we are […]
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Fertilizer acquisition process was unclaimed. Opinion of Eduardo Zegarra RPP News
June 6, 2022 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
“The crisis that could be generated is much more serious because for the first time an international price crisis would be joining a deep agrarian crisis, due to the lack of fertilizers. It is of extreme concern. The government has to take urgent measures and extraordinary”. Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, analyzes in RPP Noticias the […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts on food insecurity in Peru for a UK project
June 6, 2022 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
“The main vacuum in the Peruvian case is that we do not have an official measurement of food insecurity. It is almost impossible to organize policies if you do not have a clear understanding of what is happening and the factors behind the issue. Peru has a long tradition of measuring poverty and other social […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: “Many people are buying less quality and quantity (of food), especially in the poorest strata”
June 6, 2022 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
“The increase in annualized food inflation is around 15%. This data is very strong because it is a year in which Peruvian families have seen their income stagnant or falling. People have a little less income and now they have to go to buy food that is more expensive. Many people are buying less quality […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on TV Peru: falling prices of avocados and mangoes
June 1, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“In both markets, there is a saturation due to an offer that has been increasing year after year. On the other hand, exporting is now more expensive, because there are serious difficulties with containers and marketing processes. This is having a strong impact, above all, in medium and small producers. Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, discussed on […]
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Una propuesta correcta
March 14, 2009 State reform and public institutions
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La crisis de los alpaqueros
February 3, 2009 Rural development and agriculture
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Crisis financiera e instituciones globales
November 11, 2008 Poverty and equality
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La agenda del ministro Leyton
October 18, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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¿Y el debate público?
September 15, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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How to protect the national production of rice and corn against imports? Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts
July 18, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
How to protect the national production of rice and corn against imports? Regarding the Government’s recent action facing the demand of small producers to prohibit the importation of rice, our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra recommends for both products to negotiate with the agro-industry, in such a way that the tariffs are lowered, but under the […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: the Agrarian Law did not mean a significant advance in the reduction of poverty
June 19, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
According to our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, the Agrarian Law does not contribute significantly to the reduction of poverty in coastal areas of Peru. He said in La República: “There is no evidence that conditions in agro-export areas have improved more than in others that do not have the activity.” He also said that the special […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: “The coast should not produce potatoes in the most expensive and irrigated lands in Peru, and maybe neither quinoa”
March 6, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
Was overproduction the trigger for the collapse of potato prices? Eduardo Zegarra, principal investigator of GRADE, said in the Agrarian News Agency that the problem was that some valleys of the coast produced excessively between December and February, leaving the central highlands almost without market and at the time when its producers entered with the tuber.
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Eduardo Zegarra gives his thoughts about the subsidy requested to Minagri for the potato growers that sow at height
January 23, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
Regarding the subsidy requested to the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Peru for the potato growers that sow more than 3000 meters high, our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, said in La República that this subsidy should be channeled through a service platform of support to the farmer: “It would make a strong job of […]
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The cost of cheap water. An IPE article highlights Eduardo Zegarra’s opinion
March 27, 2017 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
The Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE) gathers, on El Comercio newspaper, the recommendations of our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, to identify adequate water tariffs that guarantee its supply and efficient human consumption. According to Zegarra, “agricultural tariffs should multiply 3.5 times to cover the costs of operation and mainteance”. In the case of Sedapal, “the average tariff in […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra in Sudaca Peru: social mobilization for the agrarian strike
April 21, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“After the pandemic, a new problem has hit the agricultural sector even more: the sharp increase in the price of fertilizers. First the price of urea doubled, then it tripled, and we are currently in a serious problem of shortages [… ] Peru imports 100% of the urea. We do not produce it internally. This […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on water management in Peru: a case study of the Ica Valley
April 15, 2022 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
“El estudio apunta a entender el vínculo entre el agua, la alimentación y la energía en un espacio específico en el que hay varios problemas con el uso del agua. Uno de los principales problemas es que la agricultura en el Valle de Ica básicamente usa el agua del acuífero. Hay evidencia de que el […]
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TV Perú: Eduardo Zegarra’s on the VAT exemption for five foods
April 14, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“It is a measure with problems. One is that the reduction will not necessarily go to the final consumer. It is also quite regressive, because it favors those with greater purchasing power. It is better to make a program of direct economic support to families in poverty or in vulnerability, more or less 50% of […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts in RPP Noticias about food items that would be exempt from VAT
April 11, 2022 State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
“The most serious thing has not been to include the pheasant or some other elements that are quite ridiculous, but to extend the rule until December 31 and include a VAT and tax credit refund mechanism that could involve very complicated tax fraud problems” . Listen to the opinion of our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra on […]
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Eduardo Zegarra explains in RPP Noticias the labor conditions of agro-export workers
December 2, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“The labor part of the Agrarian Promotion Law does not create a specific type of contract for the agricultural sector. Firms use the general regime in the form of temporary employment, but what this law does is to degrade some basic rights of workers in the use of these temporary contracts. For example, CTS, bonuses 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