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Wilson Hernández’s opinion on the ineffectiveness of protection measures to protect women who suffer gender-based violence
“When we talk about protection measures, maybe one imagines a policeman at the door of your house 24 hours a day, but that is not the case. Most measures are almost suggestions, they have no deterrent power.” Read the opinion of our Adjunct Researcher Wilson Hernández in this Salud con lupa story on the ineffectiveness […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on the stagnation of fertilizer purchases: “The first negative effect is on the producer”
“The first negative effect is on the producer with the sharp rise in costs and the drop in income (…) It is complex to predict the possible impact, but a lower supply generates inflationary pressure.” Our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion on the impacts of the delay of the purchase of fertilizers on the economy of […]
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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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Eduardo Zegarra in La República: international price of urea shows decline
“The international price of urea has started to decline, which is good news. The problem is that this drives demand in preparation for the next campaign. Acquiring urea in the commercial circuit in this context is even more complicated.” Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, shared his opinion in La República on the second call to obtain an […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion in Ojo Público on the risk of a food crisis in Peru
According to Eduardo Zegarra, the food crisis is an issue that exceeds the powers of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, so its solution should include more than one portfolio. Our Senior Researcher spoke of the possibility of organizing an emergency food commission: “The dimension of the problem has long since gone far beyond the […]
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Hugo Ñopo’s opinion in El País on Latin America’s measures to alleviate the effects of inflation
“In Peru, only 25% of employees are formal and business informality is also very large”. According to Hugo Ñopo, the increase in the cost of credit due to the rise in the benchmark interest rate of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru does not have such a direct impact on the level of activity. Thus, […]
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Americas Quaterly: Hugo Ñopo shares his opinion on the effectiveness of the Government’s anti-inflationary tools
Despite the Peruvian government’s measures to combat inflation, in an informal economy like ours, tactics such as reducing taxes on food and fuel and raising the minimum wage have limited effectiveness for many Peruvians, according to our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo. How is Latin America handling the inflation crisis? Read the full Americas Quarterly article.
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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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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, […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: “There is already a high risk that Peru will run out of fertilizers in the next three months”
“There is already a high risk that Peru will run out of fertilizers in the next three months”, said Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, in a Nativa reportage on the risk of a food crisis due to the shortage of this product.
