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...

September 1, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Emily Sullivan, unsplash, Download Topline (PDF), But public opinion is sharply divided along partisan lines, 2022 Chicago Council Survey data finds., Climate change, and what approach if any the United States should take to combat it, remains ...

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...

November 4, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This report says that Americans remain supportive of the US military presence in Japan., Introduction, President Trump’s longstanding skepticism toward US alliances and the coming negotiations over...

February 11, 2016, RESEARCH Report by Hope C. Michelson, Download Report (PDF), As retail-led agricultural marketing systems in emerging economies continue to develop, governments, NGOs, and companies can benefit from each other's experiences and examples to date., Executive Summary, Rapid urbani...

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...