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Eduardo Zegarra in RPP Noticias: “The most serious issue is that a subsidy is being managed without a complete registry”
“The register is incomplete. Midagri states that only 35% of the country’s farmers are registered. We have a serious issue, because it is a mechanism that is supposed to reach all farmers. In addition, the Comptroller’s Office has reviewed the first version and has found inconsistencies: underage people, farmers who do not belong to it, […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in RPP Noticias: “Everywhere you look at the quality of employment data, we are worse off than before the pandemic”.
“Employment relative to 2019 in Metropolitan Lima has grown 1%, but unemployment has grown 38%. If we look at proper employment, it has fallen 8% since before the pandemic. This drop particularly affects medium-sized companies. Everywhere you look at the quality of employment data, we are worse off than before the pandemic. If we look […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Exitosa: “Peru is the South American country most affected by food insecurity”.
“Peru is the most food insecure country in South America at this stage of the post-pandemic crisis. The number of people has doubled: before the pandemic there were 8 million, now FAO estimates 16 million of Peruvians with food insecurity”. Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra was interviewed in Exitosa Noticias about the increase in potato […]
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Lorena Alcázar and Vanessa Rojas presented the UNICEF study, “Social protection measures of the Peruvian government in times of COVID-19”
UNICEF Perú launched its report “Medidas de protección social del gobierno peruano en época de la COVID-19” (Social protection measures of the Peruvian government in times of COVID-19), carried out by GRADE’s researchers, Lorena Alcázar and Vanessa Rojas. The report, aimed to contribute to the development of a social protection system in Peru, was presented by our researchers and discussed by Pablo Casalí, […]
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CEPES launched the book “II Agrarian Reform”. Eduardo Zegarra is one of the authors
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 shares his opinion on the delay in the purchase of fertilizers. Via RPP News
“The big campaign starts in August until December. Approximately 70% of the so-called transitory crops are sown, which require a crucial first fertilization in the first three months. Unfortunately, we are about to lose this opportunity. that this will lead to a drop in production in several crops, which will generate inflationary pressure on food […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion in Exitosa about the delay of fertilizers and Fertibono
“The Fertibono is a monetary transfer for the balance of the amount that is not going to be spent on the purchase of urea. A fairly small amount where a fixed amount of money is going to be given to farmers in a register and it is not going to have more relationship with whether […]
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Ricardo Fort in El Comercio: “You are fulfilling an expectation that land traffickers take advantage of”
“Every ten, fifteen years, sometimes five years, from the Congress of the Republic a law is approved that gives the State the possibility of formalizing informally occupied property. You are fulfilling an expectation that land traffickers take advantage of.” Our senior researcher Ricardo Fort shared his opinion in a recent episode of El Comercio’s #PasaEnLaCalle […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: “Clear processes are needed for any regulatory reform and a public discussion based more on evidence than on ideological principles”
“A first point is that the Ministry establishes a clear position regarding the generation of formal employment. […] A second point is the need to have a stable regulatory framework. Norms cannot be approved without following a minimum public discussion procedure. Another point is what the Ministry can do to make life in formality easier. […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on Canal N: political and productive measures in the face of the agricultural crisis
“About 500,000 small and medium-sized producers use fertilizers more intensively. The hardest hit of this crisis is concentrated on them and policies should focus on them. In the approach that is being made there there is a first mistake, because it is being said that this is a program to alleviate poverty, when we are […]
