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March 31, 2020Ideeleradio

Eduardo Zegarra discusses the state of Peruvian agriculture in times of the coronavirus

“We calculate how many have a cell phone to access the voucher and no member of more than 300,000 agricultural families has a cell phone […] They do indeed require resources to be able to even eat, because they do not themselves produce all the food they require for their own food. There is need for direct productive support […] nor are there protocols on how to mobilize labor in the field. Listen to the comment of our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, in Ideeleradio on the state of agriculture in the context of national emergency against COVID-19.