Core Projects

The core projects are prioritized scientific research programmes and activities developed in cooperation with our partners and merging from the CROP Programme. CROP has currently two Core projects, with others being developed.

The CLACSO-CROP Programme on Poverty Research is based on a collaboration with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), and was initiated in 2002. This core project facilitates research on poverty in Latin America and capacitates researchers in the region to enhance the quality of research. It also informs regional poverty reduction policy, maintains a regional network of researchers, and connects regional researchers to international scientific networks.

Critical Global Poverty Studies Group (CGPS) encompasses an interdisciplinary network of scientists attempting to reframe poverty research and to generate innovative pedagogical acitvites. CGPS have a central concern with social and global justice and we view the poor as creative agents with capacity to define their actions and futures. Members of the group see their work with clear ethical dimensions that are concerned with global and social justice. CGPS is now developing a large research project centerd on the role of the middle classes in relation to the poor. 

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News from CROP Net

Member of CROP Scientific Committee Julio Boltvinik is writing a weekly column "Economía Moral" in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.

The concept of human security offers a new approach to the challenges of climate change, and the responses that could lead to a more equitable and sustainable future.

In this new CROP Poverty Brief, Prof. Thomas Pogge writes that while we are congratulating ourselves on how successful we all are in the fight against poverty, the FAO reported in 2009 that the number of chronically undernourished people has broken above 1 billion for the first time in human history.

CROP Events

8-10 September, 2010 / Manchester, UK

CROP is co-sponsoring the Chronic Poverty Centre Conference hosted by Brooks World Poverty Institute. The final programme is now available.

4-6 October 2010 / Buenos Aires, Argentina

The workshop will focus on issues like what is the "power of the poor" in present time Latin American history; how to construct (historical) "memories" in the world of the poor and the relationships between churches and governing institutions.

10-13 November, 2010 / Havana, Cuba

Organized by the CLACSO-CROP Programme in collaboration with CIPS and FANJ.