Founded in 1976, CEPES is a civil society organisation specialising in rural development. Its mutidisciplinary staff come from backgrounds including economics, law, social science and communication and information sciences.
Its activities include creating and disseminating information and knowledge through publications, magazines, electronic bulletins and radio broadcasts. Its publications include:
- Debate Agrario, a monthly research journal
- La Revista Agraria, a magazine focussing on agrarian and rural development issues
- Informativo Legal Agrario, a legal review published three times a year
- Notiagro, an online daily round-up of agrarian and rural news
- electronic bulletins on the coffee-growing, livestock-farming and milk-producing industries in Peru
The CEPES website is in Spanish and includes agrarian and rural statistics; rural and agrarian news; audio from radio broadcasts; and downloadable articles from La Revista Agraria and Debate Agrario.