December 12, 2017, RESEARCH Report by Grace Burton , Marcus Glassman , and Alesha Miller, Download Report (PDF), 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 partnersh...

October 4, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), But partisan divisions over using US troops to defend allies in Europe and Asia are growing., The 2023 Chicago Council Survey, conducted September 7–18, 2023, finds Americans overall favor long-te...

March 19, 2019, RESEARCH Report by Mark W. Rosegrant, Download Report (PDF), This report examines the urgent challenges created by water scarcity and the impact on food security., Introduction, Successful, sustainable water management in agriculture is imperative to achieve the food and nutrition...

October 13, 2020, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura, Download Report (PDF), Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura analyze survey data showing that for the first time in nearly two decades, a majority of Americans describe the development of China as a world power as a critical...

December 16, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Sam Dong , Dina Smeltz , and Lama El Baz, Jane Hahn / AP, Download Report (PDF), The public supports deploying US troops to defend allies, particularly in Europe, but most oppose using them for territorial expansion., In 2024, Donald Trump ran ...

October 28, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff, Korean Central News Agency via AP, Download Report (PDF), The public is open to resuming talks with Pyongyang under certain conditions and sees benefits from trade with Seoul., The US-South Korea alliance remains one of the most ...

April 26, 2016, RESEARCH Report by Thomas Reardon, Download Report (PDF), Feeding cities presents a major opportunity to improve the plight of millions of small-scale farmers and rural residents trapped in subsistence agriculture and joblessness., Transforming Food Systems in an Urbanizing World,...

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November 6, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff, Reuters, With all eyes on Ukraine, it is unclear if a seventh North Korean nuclear test will really register with the American public., After several years of relative calm, tensions on the Korean Peninsula are beginning to incre...

August 2, 2017, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Dina Smeltz and Lily Wojtowicz, Pedro Szekely, Download Report (PDF), New Chicago Council Survey results show a majority of Americans support maintaining or increasing sanctions against Russia and views the nation as a greater threat than in previous years...