February 28, 2022, RESEARCH Report by Gloria Dabek , Catherine Bertini , Dan Glickman , and Samanta Dunford, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), The United States has made big pledges for global nutrition. Our white paper offers recommendations to turn commitments into action., Approximately 768 mill...

February 28, 2022, RESEARCH Report by Julia Whiting and Ertharin Cousin, Bruno Kelly, Download Report (PDF), Can the United States deliver on its food systems and climate commitments? We offer recommendations to protect the planet and feed the world., The momentous 2021 global convenings on food,...

January 6, 2020, RESEARCH Report by Catherine Bertini and Alyssa Ceretti, Nikhita S., Download Report (PDF), Investing in girls' education can put countries on the path to a more stable, prosperous future., Summary, This report demonstrates that educating girls has the power to break the cycle o...

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...

June 16, 2016, RESEARCH Report by Andrea Durkin, Vaishnav Chogale, Download Report (PDF), India is forecast to experience the largest increase in urban population of any country in the world. India's cities could have another 404 million mouths to feed by the year 2050., Executive Summary, Cities...

October 29, 2018, RESEARCH Report by Ian Klaus, Download Report (PDF), While dozens of international organizations were created to give structure and order to international relations, rapid urbanization and the rising influence of cities have raised new questions around their mandates and structu...

November 14, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lily Wojtowicz and Dina Hanania, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), The American public’s view of the benefits of foreign aid is complicated; Americans support aid programs but would like to cut aid spending and have mixed feelings about its imp...

January 24, 2018, RESEARCH Report by Rob Paral, REUTERS, Download Report (PDF), As the United States strives to build a workforce that will maintain its economic competitiveness, we must invest in education and training for foreign-born workers., Key Findings, Immigrants are significant contribut...

March 30, 2017, RESEARCH Book by Roger Thurow, We revisit the families profiled in Council senior fellow Roger Thurow's book, The Last Hunger Season, six years later., Six years after its publication, Council senior fellow Roger Thurow returns to Western Kenya to revisit the farm families first p...

December 14, 2017, RESEARCH Working Paper by Karen Weigert, Nastya Dulhiier, Download Report (PDF), Karen Weigert shares four ways we can respond to future cyberattacks., In a new era of both warfare and terrorism, cyberattacks are a growing global weapon and their frequent target is energy. In t...