Norway National Committee meeting

The first meeting of the Norwegian CROP National Committee took place at SUM in Oslo.

4 February, 2010 / Oslo

The first National Committee meet was organized so that the newly appointed members could shape plans for how CROP will work nationally.

The meeting took place at SUM (Centre for Development and the Environment).

The main role of the national committee is to advise and support CROP’s Scientific Director and the CROP Secretariat in the effective implementation and achievement of the programme’s goals, with a particular focus on strengthening, promoting and connecting to CROP existing and emerging national networks and research.

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News from CROPNET

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.