CROP Scientific Committee Meetings

The next meeting of CROP's Scientific Comittee will be held in Bergen.

10-12 May, 2010 / Bergen

The next meeting of CROP's Scientific Committee will be held in Bergen.

Members of the Committee will present their intellectual contributions to the visioning process to contribute to critical poverty studies.  

The National Committee will also convene, on May 11, to discuss the way forward for CROP with the Scientific Committee.

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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.