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...

March 30, 2023, RESEARCH Report by Catherine Bertini , Peggy Tsai Yih , Roger Thurow , and Gloria Dabek, iStock, Download Report (PDF), The Center on Global Food and Agriculture provides a bold vision for a 21st Century of zero hunger in a healthier and more equitable world., During the 2022 Worl...

June 12, 2019, RESEARCH Report by Michael Tiboris, Download Report (PDF), This report from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs examines ways that urban waterway development might be used by cities., Introduction, This report aims to solicit and examine concrete ways in which urban waterway deve...

June 23, 2009, RESEARCH Book by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, James Wiseman, Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, award-winning writers on Africa, development, and agriculture, explain through vivid human stories how our sometimes well-intentioned strategies—alternating with ignorance and neglect—...

February 24, 2023, RESEARCH Report by Rose Barbuto , Gloria Dabek , and Stephanie Mercier, James Baltz, Download Report (PDF), The United States should increase support for agricultural R&D in the next Farm Bill to ensure farmers can keep feeding the world in spite of challenges from climate chan...

May 22, 2014, RESEARCH Report by Gerald C. Nelson, Download Report (PDF), This report urges the US government to take action to curb the risks climate change poses to global food security., Introduction, On May 22, 2014, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released a report urging the US govern...

May 28, 2015, RESEARCH Book by Saeid Golkar, The authors of this book address multiple questions involving the nature of youth protest in the twenty-first century., Through the authors' use of a case study approach, they comment upon the ways in which youth protest has been influenced by electron...

September 22, 2021, RESEARCH Report by Gloria Dabek, Download Report (PDF), The climate crisis necessitates a new extension agenda that prioritizes farmer needs and preferences, and promotes climate resilience and adaptation. US policy should reflect this new extension agenda to ensure farmers ha...

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...

September 16, 2015, RESEARCH Report by Charles E. Hanrahan, Download Report (PDF), Investments in global food security alleviate poverty, spur economic growth, promote social stability, and enhance the resilience of communities in low-income regions of the world., Key Findings, Research suggests ...