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Ranching Doesn't Have to Destroy the Amazon Rainforest

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Los Angeles Times
Robert Muggah

After decades of research, Brazil has led experiments to recuperate degraded rainforest and help ranchers produce more without toppling any more forest.

Amazon Rainforest logging
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Climate and the Environment

Will NATO's Vilnius Summit Advance Ukraine’s Victory?

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Deep State Radio
Ivo H. Daalder

NATO should focus its attention on the problem right next door, not on China, argues Council CEO Ivo Daalder.

Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, pose in front of their respective flags, a soldier at left.
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Defense and Security

Paths to New Prosperity and a Better Politics in Our Democracies

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Global Insight by John Austin

Leaders from the US and Europe have much to learn from one another in building strategies to foster economic renewal in formerly industrial regions.

Car factory
Lenny Kuhne
Global Cities

How to Ensure a Strong, Independent Ukraine

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Politico
Ivo H. Daalder

NATO "no longer has the luxury of ignoring the how and when" of Ukraine joining, argues Council CEO Ivo Daalder.

NATO leaders attend working dinner, viewed at the end of a table with white tablecloth and yellow centerpieces.
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Defense and Security

Ignoring the Humanity of Migrants Won't Fix Migration Problems

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Chicago Tribune
Elizabeth Shackelford

“A policy of keeping migrants away from European shores at any cost has also cost Europe its credibility,” writes Elizabeth Shackelford.

Migrants and refugees arrive by dinghy after crossing from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece.
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Migration

Global Reactions to Prigozhin's Rebellion

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

Stefan Kornelius, Catherine Philp, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

APTOPIX Russia Ukraine
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Global Politics

Unraveling Haiti Two Years after MoĂŻse's Assassination

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

From corruption to inequality, underlying factors hinder Haiti's progress post-President MoĂŻse's assassination.

A moto-taxi driver rides past a mural featuring slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise.
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Defense and Security

Prioritizing Diversity to Ensure Resilience

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Youth in Agriculture: Transforming Local Food Systems

To ensure the sustainability of the global food and agriculture system, farmers must embrace diversification.

A woman works in a field at a farm on the outskirt of Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Food and Agriculture

Queering Farming: How LGBTQIA+ Farmers are Reimagining Agriculture

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Global Food for Thought by Natalie Burdsall

Queer farmers are challenging discriminatory legacies in agriculture, and envisioning an agricultural system that uplifts and celebrates LBGTQIA+ people.

An Ashokra farm worker stands in a field of crops.
Ashokra Farm
Food and Agriculture

We Have Reached the Point of Maximum Russian Danger

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POLITICO
Ivo H. Daalder

"Putin still retains the ultimate option—using a nuclear weapon," warns Ivo Daalder in POLITICO.

Members of the Wagner Group military company load their tank onto a truck on a street in Rostov-on-Don
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Defense and Security