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A newsletter from Crain’s Chicago Business and the Council. Each Sunday evening, we bring you fascinating coverage of Chicago's role in the wider world — and the ways global connections shape our lives here at home.
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Elevating global cities as central actors shaping world affairs and advancing city-based solutions to global challenges.
Identifying opportunities for US leadership in advancing global food security and nutrition and alleviating poverty through agricultural development.
Elizabeth Shackelford
Peggy Tsai Yih
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Lester Crown Center on US Foreign Policy
The US strategy toward Africa today is neither effective nor sustainable. It’s time to flip the script.
Center on Global Cities
Samuel Kling, Florita Gunasekara, and Steven Bosacker examine the role of cities in generating and strengthening democratic practices as authoritarianism rises across much of the world.
Center on Global Food and Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture can help our food and agricultural systems become more resilient.
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