Media GRADE
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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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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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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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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 […]
