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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Chapter in BookBoom agrícola, pobreza y desigualdad en el Perú rural
Crecimiento agrícola, pobreza y desigualdad en el Perú rural
2009 Eduardo Zegarra, Jorge Tuesta
Este estudio muestra que el "boom agrícola" ocurrido durante la última década en algunas áreas de la agricultura peruana ha tenido impactos limitados en la reducción de la pobreza rural.
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Titling, credit constraints, and rental markets in rural Peru: exploring channels and conditioned impacts
2008 Eduardo Zegarra, Javier Escobal, Úrsula Aldana
This paper constructs a baseline and pursues an overall impact evaluation of the PETT (Programa Especial de Titulación de Tierras), an ambitious rural titling program created in Peru in 1992.
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Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú
2007 Eduardo Zegarra, Veronica Minaya, Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce, Juana Kuramoto, Manuel Glave, Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo, Juan Jose Diaz, Nancy Birdsall, Rachel Menezes, Maximo Torero, José Deustua, Manuel Hernández, Santiago Cueto, Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Martin Valdivia, Nestor Valdivia
Este libro recoge las Mimeos presentadas en la conferencia Investigación, políticas y desarrollo, realidad en el marco del 25 aniversario del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo.
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Projects
- Actualización del Perfil de la Pobreza en el PerúJune 2007
- Estimación del consumo de agua a nivel predial en valles de la costa peruanaMay 2015
- Estudio sobre gasto público agrario en HondurasMay 2007
- Titulación rural, mercados de tierras e inversiones en actividades agrícolas y no agrícolas en el Perú, explorando impactos y canales de transmisiónSeptember 2006
- Sistema de Administración de TierrasAugust 2006
- Diseño de Políticas Regionales para el Desarrollo CajamarcaMay 2006
- A new scheme of agricultural water tariffsJanuary 2006
- Programa Innovativo para el acceso de Jóvenes Rurales a la Caficultura ColombianaDecember 2005
- Minería e Ingresos Rurales: entendiendo las bases microeconómicas del conflictoDecember 2005
- The National Agricultural Insurance Commission policy and the impact of covariate and idiosyncratic risks on Peruvian Coast farmersJuly 2005
Media
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Eduardo Zegarra comments on measures to face a water crisis in the newscast La Encerrona
August 21, 2023 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
The central measure is to generate a different institutional scheme to face these phenomena. There should be contingency reserves explicitly assigned to regional and local governments that are automatically activated once a state of emergency is declared. […] Help farmers with specific support: seeds, veterinary kits. Also direct economic support that will allow them to […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts on the impact of the climate crisis on Peruvian agriculture. Via La República
May 22, 2023 Rural development and agriculture
“Farmers usually use a fraction of their production for their own food and with the resources obtained from the sale of their products they purchase other foods to complete their diet. Therefore, lower production means lower sales and, therefore, less income to cover their living expenses”. Read the comments of Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at […]
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Eduardo Zegarra’s opinion in Ojo Público article on Peru’s social upheaval and food shortage
January 30, 2023 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
Inflation, the international increase in the cost of inputs and the strong drought recorded in regions of the southern highlands of the country in the last half of last year will have a negative impact on food security in 2023, especially in the sectors with fewer resources. Read the opinion of our senior researcher Eduardo […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in RPP Noticias: “The most serious issue is that a subsidy is being managed without a complete registry”
October 23, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The register is incomplete. Midagri states that only 35% of the country’s farmers are registered. We have a serious issue, because it is a mechanism that is supposed to reach all farmers. In addition, the Comptroller’s Office has reviewed the first version and has found inconsistencies: underage people, farmers who do not belong to it, […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Exitosa: “Peru is the South American country most affected by food insecurity”.
October 8, 2022 Health and nutrition
“Peru is the most food insecure country in South America at this stage of the post-pandemic crisis. The number of people has doubled: before the pandemic there were 8 million, now FAO estimates 16 million of Peruvians with food insecurity”. Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra was interviewed in Exitosa Noticias about the increase in potato […]
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Una propuesta correcta
March 14, 2009 State reform and public institutions
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La crisis de los alpaqueros
February 3, 2009 Rural development and agriculture
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Crisis financiera e instituciones globales
November 11, 2008 Poverty and equality
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La agenda del ministro Leyton
October 18, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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¿Y el debate público?
September 15, 2008 Rural development and agriculture
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
The Guardian interviews Eduardo Zegarra about contagions in wholesale markets in Lima
May 17, 2020 Health and nutrition
“Markets were probably the biggest vector of infection which is why Peru’s quarantine did not work as it should have”. The Guardian interviews our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, for an article on contagions in wholesale markets in four Latin American cities: Lima, São Paulo, Mexico City and Bogotá.
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra discusses the state of Peruvian agriculture in times of the coronavirus
March 31, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“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 […]
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Eduardo Zegarra gives his thoughts about the 35% increase in the agricultural public budget for 2019
September 1, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
La República newspaper gathered the thoughts of our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, about the 35% increase in the agricultural public budget for the year 2019. Regarding investment in irrigation, he said that priority should be given to execution in the areas of the Sierra “where the gap in access to water is quite strong”. Regarding […]
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How to protect the national production of rice and corn against imports? Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts
July 18, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
How to protect the national production of rice and corn against imports? Regarding the Government’s recent action facing the demand of small producers to prohibit the importation of rice, our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra recommends for both products to negotiate with the agro-industry, in such a way that the tariffs are lowered, but under the […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: the Agrarian Law did not mean a significant advance in the reduction of poverty
June 19, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
According to our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, the Agrarian Law does not contribute significantly to the reduction of poverty in coastal areas of Peru. He said in La República: “There is no evidence that conditions in agro-export areas have improved more than in others that do not have the activity.” He also said that the special […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on TV Peru: falling prices of avocados and mangoes
June 1, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“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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Eduardo Zegarra in Canal N: “It is urgent to have a food crisis committee”
May 25, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“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”
May 20, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“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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Eduardo Zegarra on TV Peru: “We are passing the bill for many years of not thinking in terms of food security”
May 20, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“If the problem of the lack of fertilizers persists and if the measures that are being taken are not effective, because there is concern that this emergency decree has little effectiveness and efficiency, we would be facing a complicated situation. We have expensive imported food and national food that would also begin to be scarce. […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra in RPP News: demands around the second agrarian reform
April 23, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The ministry is dedicated to things that do not really prioritize the family farming agenda. Among them, an alleged unlocking of the Chavimochic project, which is highly controversial, and a first approach by the minister saying that it will be a priority of his management to grant new exonerations for the agro-export sector. All this […]
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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