News Items
Merger between ISSC and ICSU creates opportunities for CROP
October 2017
New opportunities emerge for CROP after agreed merger between the world's leading bodies of social and natural sciences, the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the International Council for Science (ICSU)
Former CROP Scientific Director Else Øyen honoured
February 2017
ANNOUNCEMENT: Former CROP Director, Else Øyen, receives the Norwegian Association of Sociologists' Honorary Award for 2017.
Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences awarded to poverty researcher Angus Deaton
October 2015
Angus Deaton, a British-American economics professor at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Economic Studies for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.
Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations
March 2015
The Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations have been launched by an expert group including Global Justice Program Director Thomas Pogge
Thomas Pogge on Global Poverty
March 2015
INTERVIEW: CROP Chair, Thomas Pogge, in conversation with The European
A Great Step Forward but Let's Be More Daring
20 July 2013
ARTICLE: Equity for Children's Comments on the High Level Panel for the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Framing Hunger: A Response to SOFI 2012
March 2013
A critique of 'The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012' report and estimates, by a group of hunger researchers led by Frances Moore Lappe and Jennifer Clapp.
No sustainable development without eradication of hunger and extreme poverty
June 2012
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme (WFP) and Bioversity International have issued a Joint statement on the occasion of the Rio+20 conference:
The Poverty Politics of the Middle Classes
May 2010
Commentary by Victoria Lawson, Asuncion St. Clair and Hårvard Haarstad on an article in "Bistandsaktuelt", No. 4, May 2010
Fight against poverty is cosmetic
May 2010
Article in "På Høyden" at the University of Bergen about public round table organised by CROP.
