Centro de Estudios Regionales, Cafeteros y Empresariales

CRECE helps create a more efficient, sustainable, profitable and resilient economy for the Colombian agricultural sector. It does this through knowledge generation, which can help guide decisions, design and implement the long-term goals of national and regional development actors. CRECE works in four specific research areas: Regional Development, Coffee Economy, Social and Institutional Development and Education. Through specialization and collaboration in these four areas, CRECE make a difference in reducing rural poverty and developing Colombian agricultural regions by producing new knowledge.