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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Crédito por ONGs: diagnóstico sobre situación de cartera (seis casos-Perú)
1998 Eduardo Zegarra, Maria Julia Méndez
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Projects
Media
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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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RPP Noticias: Eduardo Zegarra on the reduction of the entry of fertilizers to Peru
April 14, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
RPP Noticias highlighted the opinion of our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra in the newspaper Gestión on the current shortage of fertilizers and its impact on the agricultural sector. “Per month the producers require at least 40,000 tons and they were only entering 5,000 tons per month and now it is zero, everything has stopped. Future […]
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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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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra: Two urgent actions against the food crisis
April 8, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The first (action) is to promote fertilizer imports, especially urea. There is already a deficit of more than 180,000 tons of fertilizers that could not be imported. If there is no more fertilizer in the coming weeks, Peruvian agriculture, especially commercial, is going to face a very serious crisis. Secondly, an immediate measure is needed […]
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Deslindes. Solo la (gran) propiedad privada salvará al Perú
November 9, 2007 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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El censo y la Improvisación
October 17, 2007 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
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¿Reforma sin nueva ley de aguas?
March 20, 2007 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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El Censo soy Yo
January 16, 2007 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
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¿Un nuevo censo de Población?
December 26, 2006 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
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“En la costa es un escándalo que tengamos tarifas tan bajas”
November 17, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, State reform and public institutions
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Eduardo Zegarra: “La economía es una de las disciplinas que pueden ayudar a una mejor gestión del agua”
October 3, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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Debate Agrario 46: El mercado de semillas de maíz amarillo duro y los transgénicos
October 2, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, Health and nutrition
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Eduardo Zegarra: “Hay que partir de la premisa de que desarrollo no es igual a crecimiento”
July 30, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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Impacto del Fenómeno del niño en la agricultura
April 9, 2014 Rural development and agriculture
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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