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 […]
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 […]
External Affiliated Researchers
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Carmen Ponce San Román
PhD en Economics - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Carmen Ponce is an External Affiliated Researcher at GRADE 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 […]
Publications
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La agricultura familiar en el Perú: retos y posibilidades para su transformación en el contexto de los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible (ODS)
2024 Eduardo Zegarra
The main objective of the research is to identify and quantify structural factors that affect the performance of family farming in Peru and limit its transformation, so that farming families can achieve adequate and sustainable incomes over time. The specific objectives include estimating the causal relationships between structural factors and production and family income variables […]
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Estrategias de diversificación de ingresos más allá del margen: una mirada a microcosmos rurales con gran minería en los andes rurales
Perspectivas sobre desarrollo y territorio en el nuevo contexto. Homenaje a Efraín Gonzales de Olarte2023 Manuel Glave
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Agricultura familiar en tiempos de crisis en Perú: diagnósticos y recomendaciones
2023 Eduardo Zegarra, Yeni Vásquez
The purpose of this study is to assess the impacts of the global agrifood crisis on Peruvian family farming, as well as the policy responses and possible alternatives to address it, from the view of agrarian organizations and from a fiscal justice, food and climate perspective. This document presents a comprehensive, quantitative and qualitative assessment […]
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JournalThe Journal of Development Studies
Revisiting the determinants of non-farm labour income in the Peruvian Andes: the role of intra-seasonal climate variability and widespread family networks
2023 Carmen Ponce
As previous literature shows, non-farm income represents up to 50 per cent of rural household income in developing countries. Mostly due to a lack of representative information on climate and family networks, two key factors have been excluded in previous studies on income diversification: (i) the role of intra-seasonal climate variability (affected by climate change), […]
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Cerrando, ¿qué brechas?: análisis de la inversión pública en la Amazonía peruana
Sepia XIX. Perú: el problema agrario en debate2022 Álvaro Hopkins, Karla Vergara, Miguel Angel La Rosa, Manuel Glave
The study analyzes the relationship between public investment in infrastructure and the closing of gaps in the Peruvian Amazon during the first two decades of the 21st century. This analysis transcends the economic sphere by considering social and environmental dimensions as part of a territorial approach to sustainable development. It is based on the hypothesis […]
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The Evolution of Collective Land Tenure Regimes in Pastoralist Societies: Lessons From Andean Countries
2016Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave, ,
Much has been said about the importance of pastoralist livelihoods for the effective and sustainable use of the world’s drylands which cover approximately 40% of total land surface. Globally, drylands provide livelihoods to some two billion people, 90% of whom live in developing countries (UN, 2011). Pastoralism is the principle production system exercised in drylands […]
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Collective land access rights for enhancing smallholder livelihoods
2015, , Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave,
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Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru
2015,
The authors study the effects of electrification on educational outcomes in Peru by taking advantage of a program that rapidly increased electricity coverage in rural areas. Using household survey panel data from 2007-2010, we document that: i) girls living in treated districts are more likely to be enrolled in school, and this effect is larger […]
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Provision of public services and welfare of the poor: learning from an incomplete electricity privatization process in rural Peru
2007Lorena Alcazar, Maximo Torero,
The results in this paper suggest that management of electricity firms by the private sector leads to a significant improvement in the quality of the provision of electricity.
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Minería y economía de los hogares en la sierra peruana: impactos y espacios de conflicto
2007Eduardo Zegarra,
Este estudio es una exploración cuantitativa del impacto de la actividad minero-metálica en los hogares de la sierra peruana, en el que hemos empleado métodos estándares de evaluación de impactos.
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JournalAgriculture and Human Values
Does certification improve hired labour conditions and wageworker conditions at banana plantations?
2020
Certification of banana plantations is widely used as a device for protecting and improving socio-economic conditions of wageworkers, including their incomes, working conditions and—increasingly—voice [related to labour relations and workplace representation]. However, to date, evidence about the effectiveness of certification in these domains is scarce. Researchers collected detailed field data on (1) economic benefits for […]
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JournalWorld Development
Challenges in using RCTs for evaluation of large-scale public programs with complex designs: Lessons from Peru
2020
The use of randomized control trials (RCTs) to evaluate public policies and interventions in developing countries faces several challenges. These include limited budgets to finance sample designs and sample sizes required to evaluate multifaceted interventions, potential small-sample bias arising from such limited samples, and difficulties in random assignment when participants self-exclude from parts of the […]
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JournalWorld Development
Intra-seasonal climate variability and crop diversification strategies in the Peruvian Andes: A word of caution on the sustainability of adaptation to climate change
2019
Agricultural systems are highly sensitive to climate change. Most studies focus on the effect of heat and water availability on crop yields, but little is known about the impact of changes in intra-seasonal climate variability (particularly challenging in mountain regions). Also, beyond the effect on crop yields –mostly focused on single cropping systems and major […]
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JournalCuaderno de Difusión
Políticas de seguridad alimentaria y protección de la agricultura familiar en la estrategia regional de seguridad alimentaria en la región Puno
2016
This research seeks to analyze the elaboration process of the Regional Food Security Strategy (ERSA) of Puno, as well as its formal content, in order to contrast it with the Voluntary Guidelines. This analysis is highly relevant in the specific case of Puno, a highland region of Peru, which presents worrying indicators of food insecurity […]
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JournalEconomía y Sociedad
Impactos del programa Juntos en las decisiones productivas de los hogares rurales del Perú
2015Eduardo Zegarra,
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Dovetailing fair trade and organic agro-certifications in Latin America
Fair Trade and Organic Agriculture: A Winning Combination?2018
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La artículación de un espacio económico: formación de la economía regional de Piura
Historia económica del norte peruano: señoríos, haciendas y minas en el espacio regional2017
Because of its proximity to the Strait of Panama, and its relatively easy connection with the ports on the coast, northern Peru developed a peculiar economy within the country as a whole. Its characteristics include an active commercial agriculture and livestock sector, a fluid high jungle-highland-coastal communication, favored by a less rugged Andean mountain range […]
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Metodología cuantitativa de la evaluación del impacto
Combinando protección social con generación de oportunidades económicas: una evaluación del programa Haku Wiñay2016
The quantitative component of this study assesses the initial impact of the Haku Wiñay project in a number of areas: the quality of life in the household —healthy practices, food security, solid waste management, among others—, the family production system —agricultural and forestry production technologies, small animal management, among others—, the generation of autonomous income […]
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Caracterizando la intervención
Combinando protección social con generación de oportunidades económicas: una evaluación del programa Haku Wiñay2016
The chapter describes the design of the Haku Wiñay project according to the current guidelines of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion and shows its deployment in the national territory between 2012 and 2014, as well as the projection for the coming years.
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Impactos del proyecto desde una aproximación cuantitativa
Combinando protección social con generación de oportunidades económicas: una evaluación del programa Haku Wiñay2016
This chapter presents the results of the quantitative impact assessment of the Haku Wiñay project on the living conditions of households that have also been users of the Juntos programme. As mentioned in Chapter 2, the project seeks to influence various spheres of household life, and it is to be expected that in some of […]
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Land grabbing in Latin America: opportunity or threat?
2014Gerardo Damonte,
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Latin America’s rural family farmers: evolutions in access to markets and rural income structure
2014, Manuel Glave,
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Improving Environmental Management of Extractives through Environmental Impact Assessments
2013Gerardo Damonte,
The Brief focuses on three particularly noteworthy innovations implemented in Peru: mine closure plans; regulation and approval mechanisms; and citizen participation.
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Estrategias de intervención para el desarrollo rural en la Sierra sur del Perú: un estudio comparativo
2012Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce,
Aportes para la construcción de un sistema de aprendizaje de las experiencias de desarrollo rural a partir de la comparación de dos proyectos para mejorar las condiciones de vida de la población rural pobre de la Sierra: Sierra Sur y Sierra Productiva
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Policy briefBasis brief
Meeting the needs of the rural poor through post-reform financial markets
2003Javier Escobal,
This paper presents the context of BASIS CRSP project, “The Structure and Performance of Rural Financial Markets and the Welfare of the Rural Poor,” which seeks to evaluate the performance of Mexico’s and Peru’s liberalized financial markets. The authors identify important characteristics of financial sector liberalization in these countries: -Elimination of price controls and state […]
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De la Amazonía su palma. Aportes a la gestión territorial en la región Loreto
2016Elena Borasino, Manuel Glave,
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¿Es necesaria una Estrategia Nacional de Desarrollo Rural en el Perú? Aportes para el debate y propuesta de implementación
2015Ricardo Fort,
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Agricultura peruana: nuevas miradas desde el Censo Agropecuario
2015Javier Escobal, Ricardo Fort, Eduardo Zegarra,
This book presents the findings of four studies led by GRADE researchers as part of a project that seeks to broaden and deepen the analysis of the results of the IV Agricultural Census 2012. Each of the topics analysed represents a diverse and complex look at processes and relationships that are established both within the […]
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América Latina hacia la inclusión social. Avances, aprendizajes y desafíos
2014, , , , , Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave, , , ,
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Projects
- Partial formulation of Development and Innovation Strategies (EDIR) in the regions of Ayacucho, Apurimac and CuscoSeptember 2020
- A rural development strategy in Latin AmericaAugust 2020
- Effects of the Rainforest Alliance certification on the banana sector in EcuadorJuly 2020
- Managing success and failure: Comparative study of the local management of the Administrative Board of Sanitation Service (JASS) in the rural community of San Andrés de Yanacca and the rural community of Llactacunca for the improvement of rural sanitationJanuary 2020
- Mechanisms for articulated management and intersectoral and intergovernmental coordination with a territorial approach for the implementation of the National Family Agriculture Plan 2019-2021December 2019
- Impact evaluation of Work for Progress (W4P) program in QuispicanchisOctober 2018
- Agro-export boom and diversification in Peru: an analysis of survival of products and companiesAugust 2018
- Impact of a productive project on the use of time profiles of members of rural households: gender structure in a context of change in the income generation strategies of the poorest householdsApril 2017 - September 2017
- Evaluation of the IFAD Country ProgramMarch 2017
- Life strategies in a context of transformations in rural highlands: climate change, migration corridors and income diversificationDecember 2016 - November 2017
News
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Eduardo Zegarra in the regional newspaper El Búho: the Peruvian agriculture situation
June 28, 2024 Rural development and agriculture
“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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Eduardo Zegarra: Urban-rural relations in Latin America
April 29, 2024 Rural development and agriculture
“For me, the most serious aspect of rural depression is that it expels young people and decapitalizes the rural producers’ sector and makes it unviable. While we can say that the urban-rural relationship has increased, the assymetries and disadvantages for rural dwellers have also increased”. Our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts on the evolution […]
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Decapitalization of Peruvian small-scale farming, by Eduardo Zegarra
January 2, 2024 Rural development and agriculture
“The overall picture is that of a small-scale farming with declining trends in critical assets (value of livestock stock), but especially in access to fundamental services, with declining access to titling, training, credit and technical assistance, which do not reach more than 10% of farmers nationwide.” In his new article for Noticias SER, our Senior […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on A Pensar Más with Rosa María Palacios: an outlook of Peruvian agriculture and food price increases
September 5, 2023 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
“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
September 3, 2023 Rural development and agriculture
“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 […]
Events
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Ricardo Fort will be panelist at Rimisp Siembra Desarrollo project closing seminar
05/07/2023 9:30 am (hora Perú) Zoom de Rimisp Rural development and agriculture
Our Senior Researcher Ricardo Fort will be a panelist at the closing seminar of the Latin American Center for Rural Development’s (Rimisp) Siembra Desarrollo project “Smallholder agriculture and food resilient to COVID-19”. Along with Ricardo, other panelists will be Julio Berdegué, former FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ileana Gómez, Senior Researcher […]
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La Noche de las Ideas: Eduardo Zegarra joins a film discussion on the paradox of hunger and small-scale agriculture
18/05/2023 6:30 pm Sala de cine de la Alianza Francesa de Lima (Av. Arequipa 4595 – Lima) Rural development and agriculture
Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, will participate in the film discussion Feeding Consciousness: the paradox of hunger and small-scale agriculture in a globalized world, organized by the French Embassy in Peru, the French Institute, the Alliance Française in Peru and Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans Frontières. During this session, the short film “The Paradox of […]
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CEPES launched the book “II Agrarian Reform”. Eduardo Zegarra is one of the authors
29/09/2022 6:00 pm Facebook de CEPES Rural development and agriculture
Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra and Giovanna Vásquez from Conveagro presented the book “II Agrarian Reform: Family Farming as the focus of public policies”, published by the Peruvian Center for Social Studies (CEPES) and of which they are two of the authors. Panelists at the event were: Fernando Eguren (CEPES), Maria Isabel Remy (Instituto de […]
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Eduardo Zegarra will join a forum on the potential and challenges for sustainable family farming, on the sidelines of the 50th anniversary of CIPCA
09/09/2022 8:00 am Auditorio Principal de la Universidad Nacional de Piura Rural development and agriculture
Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra will join a forum on family farming on the sidelines of the 50 years of institutional life of the Center for Research and Promotion of the Peasantry (CIPCA). The event will be held in Piura. The forum will address the following topics: public policies for the promotion of family farming, family farming: […]
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Eduardo Zegarra was a speaker at the PERUSAN dialogue Zero hunger and food security: priority in regional and municipal agendas
02/09/2022 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Zoom de PERUSAN Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
“We have very serious flaws in the agri-food systems, which are highly distorted by the presence of industrial interests in which the importation of transgenic and processed foods predominates. There is little connection between the food industry and national agricultural production. Not even the State buys from family farming, which is abandoned to its fate”. […]
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