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Eduardo Zegarra in Exitosa: “Peru is one of the countries most affected by this food crisis”
“Peru is one of the most vulnerable countries facing a food crisis. We are an importer of basic foods, such as cereals and oilseeds, which are rising a lot in price internationally, and we are also total importers of chemical fertilizers, which they are scarce worldwide. There is enormous concern about this, because if we […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on TV Peru: “We are passing the bill for many years of not thinking in terms of food security”
“If the problem of the lack of fertilizers persists and if the measures that are being taken are not effective, because there is concern that this emergency decree has little effectiveness and efficiency, we would be facing a complicated situation. We have expensive imported food and national food that would also begin to be scarce. […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: “The policies of this government serve a very specific political clientele”
Formal workers —especially unionized ones— are the ones who have been prioritized in recent labor measures, according to Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE. The dialogue also addressed issues such as the minimum wage, productivity, the release of the AFP, poverty, among others. Read the full interview in El Comercio. Subscribe for access.
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Jéssica Tapia: The diagnostic evaluation must be a collegiate task
“The institutions must conceive the diagnostic evaluation as a collective task. Design a plan that is necessarily carried out collegially with all the teachers and that, in addition, can be guided by the key processes of the formative evaluation”. Jéssica Tapia, coordinator of the Growing with the Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER) project and associate […]
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Patricia Arregui on TV Peru: CNE takes a stand on attendance at 100% capacity in classrooms
“We are convinced that the four measures as a whole (distancing, the use of the mask, ventilation and vaccination) are necessary. If one is loosened, because we recognize that it will be difficult to ensure a distance of one meter for all students, the others must be reinforced. […] It is necessary for children to […]
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Javier Escobal shares his opinion on the impact of the shortage of fertilizers in Peruvian agriculture
For Javier Escobal, Senior Researcher at GRADE, subsistence farmers, among whom the use of fertilizers is widespread, are particularly vulnerable to the increase in the price of these inputs, since they cannot transfer the higher cost to consumers. In addition, since they would have to buy the food that they would stop producing, they would […]
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Effect of the agrarian labor regime on the remuneration of unskilled workers and workers, by Eduardo Zegarra
“The extreme flexibility of the contracts (temporary terms), as well as the very low capacity for unionization and collective bargaining of wages, mean much lower incomes for workers than those they could receive if they enjoyed the same rights as their peers in the regime. general or civil construction regime”. We share the article by […]
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A system with a 150 years setback, by Hugo Ñopo
“If the rights to health and pensions go from being labor rights to human rights, their financing must expand in the same direction.” In his new weekly article for Jugo de Caigua, our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo writes about the paradigm shift required by the labor market in Peru.
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Verónica Villarán: “Sixth grade girls and boys are not ready to reach the first grade of secondary school next year”
“You feel like sixth grade girls and boys are not ready to go to first grade of secondary school next year.” Verónica Villarán, coordinator of the project Growing with the Multigrade Rural Schools of Peru (CREER) an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE, spoke with Noticias SER about the return of students to face-to-face classes in rural areas […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Peru 21: risks that could aggravate the food crisis
According to Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, we are already in a food crisis due to rising food prices, but this could worsen due to the shortage of fertilizers: “Family farming supplies 60% of food and having two important sources of food – which are imported products and those produced (in Peru) – at risk, […]
