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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Chapter in BookPolíticas públicas y desarrollo rural en América Latina y el Caribe: el papel del gasto público
Gasto público, productividad e ingreso rural en los países de la comunidad andina: un análisis de determinantes e impactos
2006 Eduardo Zegarra, Patricia Vane
Se busca establecer las relaciones entre el nivel y estructura del gasto público orientado a zonas rurales/agricultura y variables de productividad agraria e ingresos rurales en países de la CAN.
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Reforma del agua y competitividad / Las diferencias de género en los mercados de trabajo peruano
2005 Eduardo Zegarra, Hugo Ñopo
Reforma del agua y competitividad: la necesidad de una nueva estrategia / Las diferencias de género en los mercados de trabajo peruano.
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JournalRegas, Revista de Gestión del Agua en América Latina
Mercado de aguas: viabilidad y potencialidades de un instrumento para la reforma de la gestión hídrica en el Perú
2004 Eduardo Zegarra
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JournalWorld Development
Determinants and impacts of rural land market activity: evidence from Nicaragua
2003 Klaus Deininger, Eduardo Zegarra, Isabel Lavadenz
Use of data from Nicaragua to examine the performance of land rental and sales markets during 1995-98 which coincide with the implementation of major macroeconomic and sectoral reforms leads to three main conclusions.
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Projects
Media
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion in Ojo Público on the risk of a food crisis in Peru
May 30, 2022 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
According to Eduardo Zegarra, the food crisis is an issue that exceeds the powers of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, so its solution should include more than one portfolio. Our Senior Researcher spoke of the possibility of organizing an emergency food commission: “The dimension of the problem has long since gone far beyond the […]
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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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Effect of the agrarian labor regime on the remuneration of unskilled workers and workers, by Eduardo Zegarra
May 5, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The extreme flexibility of the contracts (temporary terms), as well as the very low capacity for unionization and collective bargaining of wages, mean much lower incomes for workers than those they could receive if they enjoyed the same rights as their peers in the regime. general or civil construction regime”. We share the article by […]
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La inflación de los alimentos
July 22, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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Quien titula soy Yo
July 12, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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¿Cae la pobreza pero aumenta el hambre?
June 12, 2008 Poverty and equality
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Inseguridad alimentaria
May 6, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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La errática estadística avícola
February 27, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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Peruvians pay up to ten times more for drinking water
February 21, 2017 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
Peruvians do not perceive the complexity of the management of a water company, said Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, in a Instituto Integración article on the management of drinking water service companies in Peru. “Despite its vital relevance, we pay little for it. It is a huge challenge for fares to finance all of its production”, added Zegarra.
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Reinvierten 30% de lo que reciben de Juntos
December 1, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
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GRADE: Transferencias de Juntos van a actividades productivas
November 10, 2015 Rural development and agriculture
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Platos vacíos: informe sobre transgénicos en el Perú, de la revista Poder, recoge opinión de Eduardo Zegarra
April 25, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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La franja de la discordia
April 8, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, State reform and public institutions
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Eduardo Zegarra in Ideeleradio: “Among Peruvian farmers there is a feeling of helplessness”
November 3, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“In the farmers there is a feeling of helplessness. As a result of the agricultural strike and some negotiating tables, this Government told them that it was going to start making policies in favor of family farming: propose a new Ministry of Agriculture with a vice-ministry of family farming, financing the National Family Farming Plan, […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra in RPP Noticias: What are the strategies for the proper functioning of the food markets?
May 12, 2020
“The treatment of wholesale markets, which are a very large area of possible contagion, must be differentiated. Only the Great Wholesale Market of Lima gathers approximately 30 thousand people daily, including merchants, transporters, stevedores, buyers. This population gathers all the days and then scattered throughout the city. ” Listen to the interview with our senior […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra spoke with La República about the possibility of a food shortage
April 15, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with La Republica newspaper about the possibility of a food shortage in the following days. In addition, it warns of the need for concrete measures to support the agricultural sector and protect agricultural producers.
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra in La Mula: “If small farmers continue to be abandoned, we put the food of the cities at risk”
April 1, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“If small farmers continue to be abandoned, we put the food of the cities at risk.” In the face of the coronavirus crisis, Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, warns of insufficient support from the Executive to family farming, a segment that produces most of the food that we Peruvians consume. Read this interview by […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: The Congress and the Executive Branch have realized that agriculture is relevant
June 19, 2019
“I would say that the most interesting thing is what comes forward, that is, the Congress and the Executive Branche have realized that agriculture is relevant, and that rules and devices for agriculture have to be worked on”. Or Senior Researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, spoke with Noticias SER about the recent agrarian plenary, where several bills were […]
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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