Interview
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts on food insecurity in Peru for a UK project
“The main vacuum in the Peruvian case is that we do not have an official measurement of food insecurity. It is almost impossible to organize policies if you do not have a clear understanding of what is happening and the factors behind the issue. Peru has a long tradition of measuring poverty and other social […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: “Many people are buying less quality and quantity (of food), especially in the poorest strata”
“The increase in annualized food inflation is around 15%. This data is very strong because it is a year in which Peruvian families have seen their income stagnant or falling. People have a little less income and now they have to go to buy food that is more expensive. Many people are buying less quality […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on TV Peru: falling prices of avocados and mangoes
“In both markets, there is a saturation due to an offer that has been increasing year after year. On the other hand, exporting is now more expensive, because there are serious difficulties with containers and marketing processes. This is having a strong impact, above all, in medium and small producers. Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, discussed on […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Canal N: “It is urgent to have a food crisis committee”
“In the first place, we must have a food crisis committee with various ministries, civil society and agrarian associations. Second, we must put together a strong and serious program to buy fertilizers worldwide with diplomatic deployment and commercial attaches. In the short term , we need at least 300,000 tons of nitrogenous fertilizers to cover […]
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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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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 […]
