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Reaping the Digital Return: Enhancing Communities through Modern Extension

RESEARCH
Report by Coauthors

Ensuring smallholder farmers receive agricultural information is of critical importance for realizing global food security, and the USDA has a prominent role to play in close partnership with USAID.

Two farmers look at a mobile phone Food and Agriculture

Americans Support Continued US Participation in Iran Deal

RESEARCH
Report by Coauthors

Chicago Council Surveys conducted over the last several years (2014-2017) show remarkable stability of American opinion towards the Iran nuclear deal, both before and after the agreement was officially signed.

U.S. President Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York
Reuters
Public Opinion

Looking Back to Look Forward: Lessons from the Immigration Histories

RESEARCH
Report by Rob Paral

Cities of the American Midwest were largely built by immigration, and immigrants were a key component of the population growth these cities experienced in the early decades of the last century.

Chicago skyline.
Allen McGregor
Migration

Urban Waterways in Global Cities

RESEARCH
Report

This report is the product of an international effort between Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago and Mayor Anne Hidalgo of Paris to advance the discussion over how to transform neglected urban waterways.

A view of the Chicago Riverwalk, along the Chicago River, with skyscrapers in the background.
Richard Schneider
Climate and the Environment

Chicago's Global Strategy

RESEARCH
Report

The vision for Chicago’s global strategy begins with an inventory of the city’s assets, needs, and opportunities.

Cloud Gate, also known as "The Bean," sculpture in Chicago with people surrounding it.
Conner Freeman
Global Cities

Stability in the 21st Century: Global Food Security for Peace and Prosperity

RESEARCH
Report by Coauthors

The world today faces enormous challenges, including the threats of rapidly increasing instability, conflict, and migration as a result of inadequate food supplies and water scarcity.

Workers unload a truck of harvested cassava roots. Food and Agriculture

Immigration a Demographic Lifeline in Midwestern Metros

RESEARCH
Report by Rob Paral

This report examines how immigrants have helped offset native-born population loss and revitalized an aging workforce in 40-plus Midwestern metro areas between 2000 and 2015.

View from the west of the Chicago skyline at sunrise
Brad Knight
Migration

Asia in the Age of Uncertainty

RESEARCH
Report

This joint report examines the public opinion of changes taking place in the Asia-Pacific, including mutual concerns and competing visions, in order to make better-informed policy decisions.

Republic of Korea Army 1st Lt. Choi Min Kyu points across the border into North Korea while briefing Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, at Observation Point Ouellette, South Korea, Dec. 7, 2013. Public Opinion

Reducing Urban Violence and Improving Youth Outcomes in the Americas

RESEARCH
Report

Thirty leaders from Latin American and Caribbean countries met to discuss how to improve safety, reduce violence, and ultimately better the lives of young people living in cities.

Charu Chaturvedi
Global Cities

Balancing Priorities: Immigration, National Security, and Public Safety

RESEARCH
Report by Coauthors

The United States needs pragmatic, sensible approaches to immigration that will improve the nation’s security while balancing its role in other key national interests.

People wait in line at the US-Mexico border.
Reuters
Migration