Rural Development and Agriculture
GRADE researchers have a continuing interest in the state of agricultural and livestock production and the impacts of economic policy and reforms on the rural economy in Peru. Studies are carried out into forest economics, the impacts of public infrastructure on the rural economy, the main drivers of private investment, the dynamics of rural employment and migration, and rural financial systems.
Senior Researchers
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Javier Escobal D`Angelo
PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University
Javier holds a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, and a Master’s degree from New York University, where he also carried out doctoral studies in Economics. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. He is also Co-Researcher in the Young Lives/Niños del Milenio longitudinal study, which follows more than 2000 children during the […]
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Ricardo Fort Meyer
PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University
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 […]
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Manuel Glave Testino
PhD en Economics - University of Illinois en Champaign
Manuel Glave has a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He is a Senior Researcher at GRADE where he specialises in rural development, environmental economics and natural resources, and where he undertakes analysis of public policy relating to agriculture and the environment. He is a Senior Professor in the Department of […]
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Eduardo Zegarra Méndez
PhD en Agricultural and Applied Economics - University of Wisconsin
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 […]
Associated Researchers
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Carmen Ponce San Román
PhD en Economics - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Carmen Ponce is Associate Researcher at GRADE since 2005 and is currently affiliated as Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University (Toronto, Canada). She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a MSc. In Economics from the University of Texas […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Elena Borasino Deustua
Master en - Wageningen University
Elena holds a master’s degree in International Development with mention in Development Economics from Wageningen University. Currently she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.
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Mauricio Espinoza Hermoza
PhD candidate en - Wageningen University & Reseach
Mauricio is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE. He holds a master’s degree in Agriculture, Environment and Regional Economics from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is currently a PhD candidate in Economic Development at Wageningen University & Reseach in the Netherlands. His areas of […]
Publications
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Cambios en la agricultura y deforestación en la selva peruana: análisis basado en el IV Censo Agropecuario
Agricultura peruana: nuevas miradas desde el censo agropecuario2015 Eduardo Zegarra, Juan Pablo Gayoso
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JournalEconomía y Sociedad
El impacto de la inversión pública en el desarrollo regional
2015 Ricardo Fort
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Cambio climático, uso de riego y estrategias de diversificación de cultivos en la sierra peruana
Agricultura peruana: nuevas miradas desde el censo agropecuario2015 Carmen Ponce, Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Javier Escobal
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JournalPolicy in Focus
Combining social protection with economic opportunities in rural Peru: Haku Wiñay
2015 Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce
The authors assess the impact of the Haku Wiñay programme (Mi chacra emprendedora), an intervention that provides productive technical assistance and a small asset transfer to rural households in the districts that are also covered by the Juntos programme, Peru’s conditional cash transfer (CCT). Haku Wiñay focuses on the development of productive and entrepreneurial skills […]
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Agricultura peruana: nuevas miradas desde el Censo Agropecuario
2015 Javier Escobal, Ricardo Fort, Eduardo Zegarra
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El sector agrícola peruano y sus interrelaciones con el entorno macroeconómico: un modelo econométrico
1991
Se plantea un modelo econométrico para cuantificar y simular el impacto de las políticas macroeconómicas sobre el desempeño agrícola de cultivos clasificados en importables, exportables y no transables.
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Política económica y desarrollo del sistema financiero peruano, parte I: diagnóstico
1991
La situación del sistema financiero peruano a principios de 1990. La principal problemática es la pérdida de importancia del sistema financiero en el proceso ahorro-inversión agudizado a partir de 1988.
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Política económica y rentabilidad en el sector minero: 1989-1990
1991
Se recogen los resultados de una investigación sobre política económica y rentabilidad en el sector minero a través de una metodología para la construcción de un índice de tipo de cambio real minero-indicador.
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Relaciones financieras internacionales y estabilización: una propuesta para el manejo de la deuda externa peruana
1991
Estrategia para el tratamiento de la deuda externa, sustentada en que la deuda peruana con el sistema financiero internacional es impagable, por lo que es imprescindible reducirla a un 50% de su valor nominal.
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El sector industrial en el Perú: una visión de largo plazo
1991
Evolución del sector industrial peruano mostrando sus características más importantes en los últimos 30 años y poniendo énfasis en los procesos que condicionaron el derrotero de largo plazo del sector.
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Projects
- Programa Innovativo para el acceso de Jóvenes Rurales a la Caficultura ColombianaDecember 2005
- Minería e Ingresos Rurales: entendiendo las bases microeconómicas del conflictoDecember 2005
- Identifying and characterizing the target population at the area of influence of the Desarrollo Rural de la Sierra projectOctober 2005
- La Agricultura Peruana frente al Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC): ¿Oportunidad o Maldición?October 2005
- Migración Lateral de Tecnologías en Economías Intensivas en Recursos HumanosAugust 2005
- Direcciones Regionales de Minería y Gobiernos RegionalesJuly 2005
- The National Agricultural Insurance Commission policy and the impact of covariate and idiosyncratic risks on Peruvian Coast farmersJuly 2005
- Preparación de Agenda Priorizada de Reformas o Tareas Pendientes en la Administración Pública del Sector AgriculturaJune 2005
- Public expenditure, rural growth and poverty in the countries of the Andean CommunityMay 2005
- Social movement around water access in a decentralization context: the case of Olmos project at the Peruvian North CoastMay 2005
News
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Carmen Ponce wins the 2021 CALACS Prize for Emerging Scholars
August 31, 2021 Rural development and agriculture
Our Associated Researcher, Carmen Ponce, have won the 2021 CALACS Prize for Emerging Scholars for her article “Intra-seasonal climate variability and crop diversification strategies in the Peruvian Andes: A word of caution on the sustainability of adaptation to climate change”, published last year in World Development. The award was conferred on the sidelines of the Canadian Association for Latin American […]
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Ricardo Fort: What agriculture expects from the next government. An interview by Agro Peru Informa
July 1, 2021 Rural development and agriculture
“The key is to help the country come out of the economic crisis as quickly as possible and that is done through the engine of public investment. It is necessary to continue with small projects that help the continuity in the demand for local labor in rural areas, cleaning roads and irrigation canals, construction of […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
International Potato Day: Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion on the 2020 agrarian poverty figures reported by INEI
May 30, 2021 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
Regarding the agrarian poverty figures reported by the National Household Survey (ENAHO) 2020 of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, explains the problem of overproduction and dependence on industry food importation of inputs. Article of Convoca on the sidelines of the International Potato Day.
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
The Agrarian Law in Limbo, Where to Go?, by Eduardo Zegarra
December 21, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“The responsibility for this crisis is there, not in the workers who are desperate and have been harmed by this situation for so long. We hope that this time Congress and the Executive do realize that the most urgent thing is to solve this problem with measures that we believe are viable and make economic […]
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Eduardo Zegarra explains in RPP Noticias the labor conditions of agro-export workers
December 2, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“The labor part of the Agrarian Promotion Law does not create a specific type of contract for the agricultural sector. Firms use the general regime in the form of temporary employment, but what this law does is to degrade some basic rights of workers in the use of these temporary contracts. For example, CTS, bonuses and […]
Events
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Ricardo Fort joins the 2017 annual conference of the Global Research Consortium for Economic Structural Transformation (GReCEST)
14/12/2017 Etiopia Rural development and agriculture
Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, joins the 2017 annual conference of the Global Research Consortium for Economic Structural Transformation (GReCEST), in Ethiopia. GRADE, together with 30 other institutions around the world, is founding member. Ricardo was part of the panel on rural transformation and agricultural value chains in developing countries. GReCEST promotes a research agenda on […]
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Ricardo Fort shared lessons of Peru’s expansion in the exports of avocados for Kenya
23/11/2017 → 24/11/2017 Kenia Rural development and agriculture
Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, shared lessons for Kenya of Peru’s expansion in the exports of avocados. As one of the new competitors in the world market for avocados, our country is studied for comparative purposes. Ricardo joined knowledge sharing and dissemination workshops, held by the Partnership for Economic Policy, as part of the Productive […]
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GRADE researchers will join SEPIA XVII – Cajamarca 2017
29/08/2017 → 31/08/2017 8:00 am - 7:00 pm Cajamarca Rural development and agriculture
Several of our senior researchers and research assistants will be speakers, discussants and chairpersons at the biennial event of the Permanent Seminar for Agricultural Research SEPIA XVII, from August 29 to 31 , in Cajamarca. This edition will focus on three core topics: value chains and their consequences for rural development, inequalities and inequities in the rural world, and rural […]
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Presentaciones de investigadores de GRADE en el V Congreso Anual de la Asociación Peruana de Economía APE 2017
11/08/2017 → 12/08/2017 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Universidad de Lima Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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Investigadores de GRADE se presentarán en el XXXV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos LASA 2017 – Diálogos de Saberes
29/04/2017 → 01/05/2017 7:00 am - 9:00 pm Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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- Education and Learning
- Employment, Productivity and Innovation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Ethnicity, Gender and Citizenship
- Methodologies for Research and Evaluation of Policy and Programmes
- Poverty and Equity
- Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflict
- State Reform and Public Institutions
- Health and Nutrition
- Urbanization and Sustainable Cities