Rural Development and Agriculture
GRADE researchers have a continuing interest in the state of agricultural and livestock production and the impacts of economic policy and reforms on the rural economy in Peru. Studies are carried out into forest economics, the impacts of public infrastructure on the rural economy, the main drivers of private investment, the dynamics of rural employment and migration, and rural financial systems.
Senior Researchers
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Javier Escobal D`Angelo
PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University
Javier holds a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, and a Master’s degree from New York University, where he also carried out doctoral studies in Economics. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. He is also Co-Researcher in the Young Lives/Niños del Milenio longitudinal study, which follows more than 2000 children during the […]
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Ricardo Fort Meyer
PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University
Ricardo Fort is an economist with a Master in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), where he works on projects related to the economic development of […]
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Manuel Glave Testino
PhD en Economics - University of Illinois en Champaign
Manuel Glave has a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He is a Senior Researcher at GRADE where he specialises in rural development, environmental economics and natural resources, and where he undertakes analysis of public policy relating to agriculture and the environment. He is a Senior Professor in the Department of […]
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Eduardo Zegarra Méndez
PhD en Agricultural and Applied Economics - University of Wisconsin
Eduardo Zegarra is an economist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and has a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin, specializing in rural development and natural resource management. His dissertation explores the workings and failures of the water market in Chile. He has researched and published on a wide […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Elena Borasino Deustua
Master en - Wageningen University
Elena holds a master’s degree in International Development with mention in Development Economics from Wageningen University. Currently she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.
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Mauricio Espinoza Hermoza
PhD candidate en - Wageningen University & Reseach
Mauricio is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE. He holds a master’s degree in Agriculture, Environment and Regional Economics from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is currently a PhD candidate in Economic Development at Wageningen University & Reseach in the Netherlands. His areas of […]
External Affiliated Researchers
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Carmen Ponce San Román
PhD en Economics - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Carmen Ponce is an External Affiliated Researcher at GRADE and is currently affiliated as Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University (Toronto, Canada). She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a MSc. In Economics from the University of Texas […]
Publications
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Land grabbing in Latin America: opportunity or threat?
2014 Gerardo Damonte
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Latin America’s rural family farmers: evolutions in access to markets and rural income structure
2014 Germán Escobar, Manuel Glave
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América Latina hacia la inclusión social. Avances, aprendizajes y desafíos
2014 Beatriz Muriel Hernández, Miguel Fernández Moscoso, Mario Yapu, Daniela Romero Romay, Pablo Rocha Portugal, Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave, Juan Carlos Sanabria Arias, Erick Coyoy, Edmundo Urrutia
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Políticas de inversión pública y su impacto sobre el desarrollo rural: estrategias y mecanismos de implementación en la última década
Perú: el problema agrario en debate. Sepia XV2014 Ricardo Fort
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Projects
News
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra discusses the state of Peruvian agriculture in times of the coronavirus
March 31, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“We calculate how many have a cell phone to access the voucher and no member of more than 300,000 agricultural families has a cell phone […] They do indeed require resources to be able to even eat, because they do not themselves produce all the food they require for their own food. There is need for […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Our family farming in times of coronavirus, by Eduardo Zegarra
March 24, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“Our family farming, abandoned to its fate for so long, today becomes a bastion of our economy to face the crisis, have food security and look forward with hope.” Our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, writes in OtraMirada about the importance of smallholder agriculture in the times of the coronavirus.
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An op-ed by Richard Webb cites Eduardo Zegarra’s estimation of land reconcentration
July 22, 2019 Rural development and agriculture
The recent article by Richard Webb, director at the San Martin de Porres University’s Institute of Peru, “Harvesting figures”, addresses the influence of two figures related to agriculture: one in regard of the origin of the agrarian reform and another in regard to the growth of the agricultural sector during the last two centuries. Regarding the first figure, […]
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Rural poverty exacerbates in Peru and Latin America
February 21, 2019 Rural development and agriculture
Nuestro investigador principal, Eduardo Zegarra, fue entrevistado en la revista belga Sos Faim sobre pobreza rural en el Perú. A continuación, compartimos la reproducción traducida al español de la entrevista completa: El último informe de las Naciones Unidas sobre la pobreza rural en América Latina y el Caribe señala que los países de estas regiones enfrentan […]
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Bangkok: Members of GRADE joined the Think Tank Initiative 2018 as panelists and workshop participants
November 26, 2018 Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition, Urbanization and sustainable cities
After almost a decade of organizational support, the Think Tank Initiative brought together representatives of think tanks, policymakers, donors and other research-to-policy actors for a final Think Tank Initiative Exchange to mark the last year of the program. This Exchange built on a decade of TTI lessons, experiences and insights on the challenges of building […]
Events
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Eduardo Zegarra será expositor en la XVII Convención Nacional del Agro Peruano CONVEAGRO 2014
26/11/2014 → 26/11/2014 9:00 am Auditorio de la Asociación Peruana de Ingenieros Agrarios (Jr. Pablo Bermúdez N° 375, Jesús María) Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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Gerardo Damonte y Manuel Glave participarán en conferencia “Políticas e investigaciones sobre recursos naturales en contextos de cambio climático”
28/11/2014 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm Centro Cultural PUCP (Camino Real N° 1075, 5to piso, San Isidro) Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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GRADE y CIES co-organizan mesa sobre articulación de programas de alivio a la pobreza y desarrollo productivo, en el marco del XXV Seminario Anual CIES 2014
05/11/2014 8:20 am - 10:30 am Hotel Sonesta (Pancho Fierro, El Olivar - San Isidro) Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Eduardo Zegarra participará en el VI Simposium del Agua, organizado por la Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Petroleo y Energía
22/10/2014 8:30 - 7:00 pm Local de la Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Petróleo y Energía (Jirón De La Roca de Vergallo N° 461 - Magdalena del Mar) Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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GRADE on live, Publication Presentation
Presentación del libro “Economía del agua: conceptos y aplicaciones para una mejor gestión” de Eduardo Zegarra
17/09/2014 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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- Education and Learning
- Employment, Productivity and Innovation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Ethnicity, Gender and Citizenship
- Methodologies for Research and Evaluation of Policy and Programmes
- Poverty and Equity
- Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflict
- State Reform and Public Institutions
- Health and Nutrition
- Urbanization and Sustainable Cities
