Ricardo Fort Meyer
Senior Researcher
PhD in Economic Development - Wageningen University
rfort@grade.org.pe
Ricardo Fort is an economist with a Master in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), where he works on projects related to the economic development of rural areas as well as marginal urban neighborhoods in Peru and in several other countries.
In recent years he has been Visiting Researcher at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and The University of Chicago in the United States. He is the author of several books and academic articles on these subjects and has worked as a consultant for institutions such as the World Bank, the United Nations, FAO, the Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, among others.
Publications
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¿Agroindustria en la Amazonía? Posibilidades para el desarrollo inclusivo y sostenible de la palma aceitera en el Perú
2016 Ricardo Fort, Elena Borasino
The research shared in this book addresses the central issues related to the possibility of developing oil palm cultivation in the Peruvian Amazon under standards that ensure the lowest environmental costs, the viability of a significant participation of small producers in the development of the crop with results that allow them to improve their living […]
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¿Agroindustria en la Amazonía? Posibilidades para el desarrollo inclusivo y sostenible de la palma aceitera en el Perú
2016 Ricardo Fort, Elena Borasino
Contributions to the design of policies under a territorial planning model for the oil palm chain.
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¿Es necesaria una Estrategia Nacional de Desarrollo Rural en el Perú? Aportes para el debate y propuesta de implementación
2015 Ricardo Fort, María Isabel Remy, Héctor Paredes
The text proposes a series of elements for the restructuring of the National Strategy for Rural Development (ENDER for its acronyms in Spanish), such as the definition of rurality and the different spaces that comprise it, as well as a reordering of public interventions in fields derived from this analysis. It then carries out a […]
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Chapter in BookAgricultura peruana: nuevas miradas desde el censo agropecuario
Estrategias de articulación de los productores agrarios en la costa peruana: ¿asociatividad, vinculación con empresas o ambas?
2015 Ricardo Fort, Ricardo Vargas
The main objective of this research is to identify and characterise the producers who currently participate in one of these two market linkage strategies, as well as those who are integrated through a third way, which consists of linking up with companies through producer associations rather than individually. This identification will be carried out using […]
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JournalEconomía y Sociedad
El impacto de la inversión pública en el desarrollo regional
2015 Ricardo Fort
How to target public investment in rural areas efficiently and reduce poverty? According to the research that gave rise to this article, investments in irrigation, roads and telecommunications have a significant effect on the promotion of agricultural productivity and poverty reduction. Strengthening human capital and investments in market access also generate positive impacts to be […]
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Projects
Media
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Half of the investment in vulnerable neighbourhoods goes to low quality projects
April 6, 2017 State reform and public institutions, Urbanization and sustainable cities
El diario La República destaca los hallazgos del estudio de Álvaro Espinoza y Ricardo Fort sobre la calidad de la inversión pública urbana sin planificación territorial. Los autores identificaron que casi la mitad de la inversión destinada a la infraestructura en barrios vulnerables de Lima se destina a obras de baja prioridad, dejando de lado […]
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Beyond SNIP, by Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza
November 21, 2016 State reform and public institutions, Urbanization and sustainable cities
Our researchers Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza address the complexities which the National Public Investment System (SNIP) reform should be dealing: “[…] we need a public investment planing system articulating sectors and government levels, and strictly binding with the state budget system. Only in this way we will be able to make a real quality jump in public investment.”
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GRADE: Peru has over 400 thousand hectares to plant oil palm
November 10, 2016 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
“… it have been identified potential areas for oil palm plantations, strategies for linking small scale agricultors into the production chain, and legal and institutional aspects”. Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE and editor of the book “¿Agroindustria en la Amazonía?”, shared with diario Gestión the main issues addressed in the publication, linked to the possibility of […]
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Ricardo Fort: “Un tema fundamental es la necesidad de articular mejor los esfuerzos del sector público en la provisión de infraestructura”
May 24, 2016 State reform and public institutions, Urbanization and sustainable cities
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Selected Publications
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¿Es necesaria una Estrategia Nacional de Desarrollo Rural en el Perú? Aportes para el debate y propuesta de implementación
2015 Ricardo Fort, María Isabel Remy, Héctor Paredes
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