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Wednesday, 13 de November de 2024Upcoming event in Santiago de Chile : Challenges of mining public policy in Chile. A view from the civil society
The development of metallic and non-metallic mining in Chile has brought challenges that governments have insufficiently addressed. This is expressed in the high levels of socio-environmental conflict in the sector and institutional weakening. Our event aims to critically analyze the social and environmental aspect of Mining Environmental Liabilities and the lithium industry in Chile in […]
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Tuesday, 5 de November de 2024
Manuel Glave to be panelist at forum on governance of Amazonian road infrastructure projects
Our senior researcher Manuel Glave will be a panelist at the Forum “Road planning in the face of illicit economies in the Amazon”, organized by the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development Peru. At the event, participants will share alternatives to strengthen the development and governance of Amazonian road infrastructure projects. Free admission, prior registration […]
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Monday, 7 de October de 2024
GRADE, AIDER and USAID Peru presented the systematization of the Alianza Forestal Project
Last Friday, October 4th, GRADE, AIDER and USAID Peru presented the systematization document of the Alianza Forestal Project (Forestry Alliance Project), which implemented a holistic approach to Communal Forest Management (CFM) in seven Cacataibo and Shipibo-Conibo indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon, in Ucayali. The document was prepared by Manuel Glave, Marcela Cavassa, Oriana Heredia […]
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Tuesday, 17 de September de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra at APRODEH colloquium: “In the next decade, the probability that the country’s most important aquifer will collapse is high”
“In the next decade, the probability that the most important aquifer in the country will collapse is high. The amount of water that is being extracted is leading to the fact that the water from this aquifer cannot be used due to salinization or collapse”. Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, participated in the III […]
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Tuesday, 27 de August de 2024
Proyecto Alianza Forestal: manejo de bosques comunales para la sostenibilidad socioeconómica y ambiental
Since 2019, the Forest Alliance Project has implemented a communal forest management model in seven native Amazonian communities of the Shipibo-Konibo and Kakataibo ethnic groups. To do so, it adopted an ecosystem approach to communal territory, which improves the livelihoods of indigenous families through sustainable enterprises. This book gathers the systematization of the project experience […]
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Thursday, 22 de August de 2024
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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Tuesday, 6 de August de 2024
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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Monday, 22 de July de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra is an expert member of the Multidisciplinary Committee on Water Stress convened by CEPLAN
The National Center for Strategic Planning (CEPLAN) formalized the creation of the Multidisciplinary Commitee on Water Stress, with the aim of making strategic proposals to guarantee the availabilty, quality and sustainability of water resources. Among its main actions are the prioritization of strategic proposals in the integrated management of water resources, the identification of relevant issues at […]
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Monday, 3 de June de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra will be joining an INTE-PUCP’s discussion on the water crisis in Chile
Our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra will be joining the dialogue “The Chilean case of water management, current crisis and challenges for sustainability”, organized by the Institute of Nature, Land and Energy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (INTE-PUCP). This discussion seeks to analyze the different aspects that explain the water crisis situation in Chile, from […]
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Monday, 22 de April de 2024
Earth Day: a selection of our recent free access publications
Promoting environmentally and socially sustainable management of natural resources is one of the greatest challenges facing the countries of the region and Peru in particular. On Earth Day, we share some of the published work of our researchers who have focused on analyzing, from territorial and interdisciplinary perspectives, the social, economic and political causes that […]
