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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JournalDebate agrario
Mercado de aguas y desarrollo agrario: explorando límites y posibilidades
2003 Eduardo Zegarra
Se argumenta que la difícil relación entre agricultura y mercados se origina en parte en las particularidades del sector agrario en general, con complicaciones adicionales para países en desarrollo como el Perú.
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Teacher unionization and the quality of education in Peru: an empirical evaluation using survey data
2002 Eduardo Zegarra, Renato Ravina
This paper analyzes the evolution and current profile of teacher unionization and estimate the impact of unionization on the quality of public education in Peru.
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Chapter in BookPerú, el problema agrario en debate: Seminario Permanente de Invetigación Agraria, (9º: Noviembre 2002. Oct. 22-24: Puno, Perú)
La investigación social sobre el manejo del agua de riego en el Peru: una mirada a conceptos y estudios empíricos
2002 Eduardo Zegarra
El desarrollo de la agricultura en el Perú tiene una evidente correlación con los avances en el manejo del agua para riego.
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Chapter in BookRural poverty in Latin America: analytics, new empirical evidence and policy
Land markets and the persistence of rural poverty: post-liberalization policy options
2000 Eduardo Zegarra, Michael Carter
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JournalDesarrollo productivo
El mercado de tierras en el Peru: análisis institucional y económico
1999 Eduardo Zegarra
En el primer volumen se analizan de manera sistemática algunos de los elementos conformantes del "contexto institucional" en que funciona el mercado de tierras en el Perú.
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Projects
Media
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Eduardo Zegarra in Peru 21: risks that could aggravate the food crisis
May 2, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
According to Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, we are already in a food crisis due to rising food prices, but this could worsen due to the shortage of fertilizers: “Family farming supplies 60% of food and having two important sources of food – which are imported products and those produced (in Peru) – at risk, […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: “There is already a high risk that Peru will run out of fertilizers in the next three months”
April 27, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“There is already a high risk that Peru will run out of fertilizers in the next three months”, said Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, in a Nativa reportage on the risk of a food crisis due to the shortage of this product.
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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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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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Los andinos: ¿Optimismo exagerado?
February 5, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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Deslindes. Descompensando al agro peruano
January 17, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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TLC aprobado, pero ojo con los transgénicos
January 5, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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Deslindes. Poniendo en venta el orgullo
December 26, 2007 Employment, productivity and innovation
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¿Debe el INEI autoevaluarse?
November 26, 2007 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
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Eduardo Zegarra: Precio del maíz no tiene mayor efecto en el del pollo
October 31, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation, State reform and public institutions
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Brecha de inversión en saneamiento llegaría a S/. 53,5 mil mills al 2021
October 22, 2014
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GRADE: Al menos 6’000,000 de peruanos no tienen agua potable
October 6, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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Hoy se celebra el Día Mundial de la Alimentación. Perú: cuestionan la calidad de alimentos en el mercado interno
October 16, 2013 Rural development and agriculture
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Rural poverty exacerbates in Peru and Latin America
February 21, 2019 Rural development and agriculture
Nuestro investigador principal, Eduardo Zegarra, fue entrevistado en la revista belga Sos Faim sobre pobreza rural en el Perú. A continuación, compartimos la reproducción traducida al español de la entrevista completa: El último informe de las Naciones Unidas sobre la pobreza rural en América Latina y el Caribe señala que los países de estas regiones enfrentan […]
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Countryman’s Day: Eduardo Zegarra gives his thoughts on the state of little agriculture in Peru
June 25, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
On the sidelines of the Countryman’s Day, our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, give his thoughts in Agraria.pe on the state of small agriculture. He thinks that the Law for the Agrarian Promotion must homologate its labor regime with the general regime, in such a way that “the agricultural workers have guaranteed all they corresponding rights”. […]
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Eduardo Zegarra explains the Agrarian Law, its benefits and the problems of its special labor regime
June 19, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
What is the Law for the Promotion of the Agrarian Sector or Agrarian Law? What worked and what did not? Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, explained in Ideeleradio its benefits and problems for which, he thinks, it must be reformed: “The labor regime of the law can not remain as the special one. The fundamental labor […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts on the issues surrounding the strike of potato producers in Ideeleradio
February 2, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
“For more than two decades, there has been an absolute abandonment of family farming in Peru,” said Eduardo Zegarra in Ideeleradio about the strike of potato producers. Our senior researcher also explained that the challenges of potato cultivation can only be faced with strong and well-structured policies, such as a sowing information and management system […]
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Entrevista a Eduardo Zegarra sobre la reducción en la franja de precios en el Perú
May 8, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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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