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GRADE’s researchers are speakers at the international seminar for the 60th anniversary of the Faculty of Social Sciences at PUCP
Our researchers are participating as speakers at the international seminar “60 years of dialogues and development with Peru”, organized by the School of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in the framework of its 60 anniversary. On the first day, during the opening of the event, Juan León, senior researcher at GRADE, […]
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Carmela Chávez on the permanent licensing of universities: “Today we no longer have the guarantee of having basic quality conditions”
“We are facing a much bigger issue that has to do with the sustainability of the university system. Universities are being created without any kind of control. When the time comes for licensing, who ensures that they obtain licenses with basic conditions that no one is going to reevaluate?”. Carmela Chávez, Associated Researcher at GRADE, […]
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Eduardo Zegarra commented on the study on the water emergency in Ica
“There is a serious issue of overexploitation of Peru’s main aquifer. Eighty percent of the country’s groundwater is in this aquifer” Last August, 5, our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra discussed on the presentation of a study on the role of fresh fruit and vegetables production for export in the water emergency in Ica. Watch his participation […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in the regional newspaper El Búho: the Peruvian agriculture situation
“We have a technological challenge to develop better food. Peru produces high quality food. Our family farming has the capacity to produce quite nutritious food, but its productivity is low. In many cases, producers have to take refuge in low value-added products and low income generation. We have to break this trap of low productivity […]
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#WorldWaterDay Eduardo Zegarra and the current challenges of water management in Peru
Although Peru ranks first in per capita water supply , the reality is different: more than three million people do not have access to drinking water. In Lima, a prolonged drought will be enough to leave our capital city completely without water for months. Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra explains the challenges of water management in our […]
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GRADE, PEP and WIEGO held the Decent Work for Women in Peru: Barriers and Policy Options Seminar
Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) organize the Decent Work for Women in Peru: Barriers and Policy Options Seminar, as part of a research project led by our Senior Researcher Lorena Alcázar on December 1st at 09:00 a.m., in GRADE’s headquarters. REGISTRATION […]
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Education as and for Justice: Launch of the JustEd Project
El Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) organizó la presentación de JustEd, un proyecto de investigación colaborativa e internacional que busca entender de qué forma los sistemas educativos de países del Sur Global vienen contribuyendo con las agendas de justicia y sostenibilidad vinculadas con los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. JustEd se desarrolló entre el […]
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GRADE and trAndeS held the international seminar Transitions to sustainability: lessons learned in territories with a large-scale mining presence in Colombia, Chile and Peru.
El Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) y trAndeS Programa de Posgrado en Desarrollo Sostenible y Desigualdades Sociales en la Región Andina, con el apoyo de la Fundación Ford, organizaron el Seminario Internacional Transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad: lecciones aprendidas en territorios con presencia de minería a gran escala en Colombia, Chile y Perú, los días […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on A Pensar Más with Rosa María Palacios: an outlook of Peruvian agriculture and food price increases
“Basically three processes have aggravated the agricultural crisis. First COVID, then the fertilizer crisis, very poorly managed, and the last has been the climate crisis, with a drought in the highlands and the coastal El Niño. If you add all this up, agricultural production has fallen 5% in the first six months of this year, […]
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How can we move towards inclusive rural development? Ricardo Fort via CIES
“Instead of looking at what is currently there and what the problems are to improve the type of production, we look at the potential of the territories in terms of their resources along with the connectivity of those spaces to the main markets in Peru and abroad.” Our senior researcher Ricardo Fort shares a proposal […]
