CRECE - Colombia

CRECE (Centro de Estudios Regionales Cafeteros y Empresariales) helps to create a more competitive, efficient, sustainable, profitable and resilient economy for one of the most important rural activities: coffee. We do so through the generation of knowledge that can help guide the decisions as well as the design and implementation of long-term goals of national and regional development actors. This way, CRECE helps to reduce rural poverty in Colombia and do we manage an adequate integration with the development of the regions. Our mission: To contribute permanently and systematically to the generation of knowledge, to orient the decisions of national and regional development actors, as well as to the construction and promotion of long-term purposes. Our vision: To consolidate ourselves as a research center of excellence that participates in and promotes regional development. Our objectives: - Contribute to the economic and social development of Colombia and in particular the coffee region of the country. - Deepened studies on issues relevant to economic, social, national and regional development and contribute to the training of human resources in these areas. - Generate and disseminate knowledge in the areas of education, regional development and coffee economy. - Promote the training of human resources in the region in order to contribute to the strengthening of human capital and thus achieve optimum utilisation of regional potentials. - Acting in conjunction with entities or organizations that contribute to the integral development of the country and the region, with the purpose of strengthening the achievement of shared objectives through inter-institutional work.