April 24, 2013, RESEARCH Report by Philip G. Pardey and Jason M. Beddow, Download Report (PDF), This report examines implications of increasingly influential roles of global business, agricultural research, and the limited national research capacity of developing countries., Introduction, The Chi...

April 24, 2019, RESEARCH Working Paper by Kristin Ljungkvist, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), For an extended historical period, nation-states have held nearly sole responsibility for providing security, and they certainly continue to have the greatest responsibility today., Key Findings, Cities ...

April 1, 2019, RESEARCH Report by Catherine Bertini, Caren Firouz/Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This report is a collection of perspectives from 20 authors that highlights the needs of rural girls and solutions to the challenges they face., Introduction, Girls Leading: From Rural Economies to G...

November 5, 2018, RESEARCH Report by Katelyn Jones, Download Report (PDF), Recognizing the critical importance of addressing D&I across sectors, a group of leaders gathered in a roundtable at the Council’s 2018 Global Health and Development Symposium., Key Findings , Gender equality is no long...

August 30, 2022, RESEARCH Report by Florita Gunasekara , Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata , and Chandni Singh, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Local leadership plays a critical role in responding to climate threats and addressing the challenges associated with migration, the report's authors find., Cli...

September 23, 2019, RESEARCH Report by Kris Hartley, Download Report (PDF), Cities have a crucial role to play in translating the high-level, ambitious, and multidimensional vision of the SDGs into practice through local policies—that is, localization., Key Findings, The United Nations’ 2030 ...

December 2, 2022, RESEARCH Report by Christopher Kindell and Laura Valdés, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Two case studies from Bogotá and Chicago demonstrate how cities embraced participatory governance frameworks in their COVID-19 pandemic responses., Among the many urban crises precipitated...

May 10, 2023, RESEARCH Report by Samuel Kling , Florita Gunasekara , and Steven Bosacker, iStock, Download Report (PDF), Samuel Kling, Florita Gunasekara, and Steven Bosacker examine the role of cities in generating and strengthening democratic practices as authoritarianism rises across much of t...

October 13, 2016, RESEARCH Report by Noah J. Toly and Sam Tabory, Download Report (PDF), This report aims to better understand whether and how cities might harness their economic influence for influencing policy and governance debates at the national and international levels., Key Findings , Whe...

May 16, 2023, RESEARCH Report by Paul E. Schickler, III , Francesca DeBiase , Sally Rockey , Jennifer Goldston , Peggy Tsai Yih , and Natalie Burdsall, Kenny Eliason, Download Report (PDF), A "sustainable food seal" empowers consumers and farmers to support a more sustainable food supply chain., ...