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Ricardo Fort in El Comercio: “You are fulfilling an expectation that land traffickers take advantage of”
“Every ten, fifteen years, sometimes five years, from the Congress of the Republic a law is approved that gives the State the possibility of formalizing informally occupied property. You are fulfilling an expectation that land traffickers take advantage of.” Our senior researcher Ricardo Fort shared his opinion in a recent episode of El Comercio’s #PasaEnLaCalle […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: “Clear processes are needed for any regulatory reform and a public discussion based more on evidence than on ideological principles”
“A first point is that the Ministry establishes a clear position regarding the generation of formal employment. […] A second point is the need to have a stable regulatory framework. Norms cannot be approved without following a minimum public discussion procedure. Another point is what the Ministry can do to make life in formality easier. […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on Canal N: political and productive measures in the face of the agricultural crisis
“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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Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts on food insecurity in Peru for a UK project
“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”
“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
“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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Jessica Tapia was a panelist at an event held by UNESCO Peru and other institutions on the tensions and opportunities in a curricular reform
On what basis are we thinking about updates and changes to the curriculum? Should we rather move towards a logic of curricular development that is nourished by evidence from various sources and that responds to a larger and long-term curricular policy? I think that that’s the goal.” Our Adjunct Researcher Jessica Tapia joined a panel on […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Canal N: “It is urgent to have a food crisis committee”
“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”
“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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Jéssica Tapia: The diagnostic evaluation must be a collegiate task
“The institutions must conceive the diagnostic evaluation as a collective task. Design a plan that is necessarily carried out collegially with all the teachers and that, in addition, can be guided by the key processes of the formative evaluation”. Jéssica Tapia, coordinator of the Growing with the Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER) project and associate […]
