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Monday, 14 de October de 2024Evaluation: Impact of DEG/OeEB investments on its clients, their employees and local communities
This study seeks to explore the impact of the investments of the German Investment Corporation (Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft – DEG) and the Austrian Development Bank (Oesterreichische Entwicklungsbank AG – OeEB) on their clients, their employees and local communities. Specifically, the evaluation seeks to i) analyze the effects at the level of the client, beneficiaries, […]
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Monday, 30 de September de 2024
Sustainability of artisanal mining in Madre de Dios
The objective of the project is to design and implement a joint research program for Madre de Dios that includes collaborative research activities, as well as the development of research projects in the region. The project seeks to contribute to research on artisanal alluvial gold mining in Madre de Dios and to promote a responsible […]
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Wednesday, 3 de July de 2024
Evaluating the efficacy of social innovation programming at advancing rural development in the context of exogenous shocks
In this paper, we design and deploy an experimental approach to evaluate the efficacy of a social innovation initiative implemented in rural communities situated in the highlands of Peru, which confronted the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the midst of its implementation. Using three rounds of information collected before, during, and after participation, […]
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Friday, 28 de June de 2024
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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Wednesday, 19 de June de 2024
Final evaluation of the cooperative development program “Strengthening the competitiveness of farmers’ cooperatives”.
The Cooperative Development Programme of the United States Agency for International Development is a global initiative that supports activities aimed at strenghtening cooperatives. In Peru, since 2010, two implementing partners, Equal Exchange y GENEX Cooperative, have been in charge of these activities. GENEX Cooperative has deeloped the project “Strengthening the Competitiveness of Agrarian Cooperatives”, implemented in Peru […]
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Sunday, 16 de June de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra to speak in a National Agrarian Confederation conference on family farming
On the sidelines of the Peasant’s Day, our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra will present the crisis and current reality of the Peruvian agrarian sector in a National Agrarian Confederation conference on the challenges and opportunities for family farming. The event will be live streamed on CNA’s Facebook.
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Monday, 29 de April de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra: Urban-rural relations in Latin America
“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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Tuesday, 13 de February de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra to present study on the challenges and possibilities of family farming at INEI event
Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra will present the study “Family Farming in Peru: Challenges and possibilities for its transformation in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals”, carried out within the framework of the National Call for Research 2023 of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). ZOOM Join the Zoom meeting here.
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Tuesday, 13 de February de 2024
The role of active discussion in learning about uncertain technologies
The decision to adopt one technology versus another depends on how uncertain the decision maker views each technology. Attitudes towards risk (known probabilities) and ambiguity (unknown probabilities) have been shown to partially explain the observed sub-optimal level of adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries. While social learning can help resolve associated information frictions and […]
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Thursday, 8 de February de 2024
Global exports draining local water resources: land concentration, food exports and water grabbing in the Ica Valley (Peru)
The agro-export boom is threatening the sustainability of water resources in many regions around the world. This is the case of the Ica valley in Peru, where in the last decades traditional agriculture has been replaced by big agricultural businesses to meet the growing international food demand. This has led to increasing land concentration by […]
