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Droughts in the Peruvian highlands reveal the limitations of Catastrophic Agricultural Insurance. Opinion by Eduardo Zegarra via Altavoz
According to Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, the Catastrophic Agricultural Insurance scheme does not meet the needs of agriculture, where crops such as potatoes, corn, and Andean grains depend exclusively on rainfall. Read his full opinion in this article from the news website Altavoz here.
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Miguel Jaramillo: “Clearly, employment is not a priority for the government”
“People are so skeptical about finding employment that they are not participating in the labor market”, said Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, in an interview with the newspaper Gestión, considering the measures taken in recent months. Thus, some indicators related to private investment suggest a “revival”, but this is not translating into job creation […]
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¡Convocatoria abierta! IV Curso Ciencias Sociales para la Conservación
Los interesados podrán inscribirse hasta el viernes 5 de setiembre de 2025 adjuntando una carta de presentación, una carta de recomendación, una propuesta de investigación y una hoja de vida. El curso iniciará el jueves 02 de octubre, e incluirá una etapa virtual y dos etapas presenciales. Descarga los términos de la CONVOCATORIA. La falta […]
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Strengthening Justice in Education in Adverse Times, by María Balarin and Lizzi O. Milligan
“School experiences, despite the different curricular and pedagogical models in each country, seemed characterised by what we came to describe as shallow pedagogies, which, we argue, constitute a major form of epistemic injustice that seriously limits the contribution that education can make towards necessary societal transformations.” María Balarin and Lizzi O. Milligan present key findings from […]
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Those who are left over: young people in the employment recovery, by Miguel Jaramillo
“Between 2019 and 2024 we see a seven percentage point drop in their labor market participation rate and, as a consequence, there has been an even greater drop in the proportion of young people generating an income”. In his latest op-ed in El Comercio, Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the employment situation […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: “A young farmer is twice as likely to live in poverty”
According to our Senior Researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, the low interest of young people in agriculture has a clear explanation: “Agricultural poverty is twice as high as in the non-agricultural population. A young farmer is twice as likely to live in poverty”. Read the full interview in Agroperú magazine here.
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New report on resilience in education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
The AdaptED Observatory presents its first report on how education resilience is understood and incorporated in the systems of 11 GPE partner countries. Review and download the report. The Observatory for Educational Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean, AdaptED, has published its first report that seeks to open the conversation, be shared and commented […]
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Eduardo Zegarra’s project is selected in PROCIENCIA’s 2025-04 Social Science Research Contest
We congratulate our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra, whose research project “Agro-export boom and labor conditions of agricultural workers: evaluating the impacts of changing from Law 27360 to Law 31110” was selected in the Economic Policy area of the Social Science Research Projects 2025-04 contest, promoted by the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation […]
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Opinión de Eduardo Zegarra sobre la ley de semillas transgénicas en el Perú. Vía Mongabay
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Eduardo Zegarra’s opinion on tax exemptions to the agro-export sector. Via Ojo Público
“Agrarian economist Eduardo Zegarra warns that the agro-export sector already enjoys an excessive level of subsidies and exemptions. He points out that 80% of these benefits are concentrated in only 150 exporting companies. If the so-called Chlimper Law is approved, the benefits would reach historic levels”. Opinion of our Senior Researcher on tax exonerations in the agro-export […]
