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Our weekly roundup of the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog Craig Kafura explains Japans Coronavirus Measures.

What does China’s economic slowdown mean for the world? UC San Diego's Victor Shih joins Deep Dish to discuss.

The Council's Robert Muggah offers TEDxSaoPaulo five priorities to disrupt the crime and corruption that threatens not just Latin America, but the world.

Were the recommendations in the Center on Global Food and Agriculture's 2015 nutrition report successful? The Council examines this question in the first part of our 2021 series to find out.

A recent poll from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and The Harris Poll shows urban and suburban residents cities are looking to sustainable mobility to forestall a potential long-term shift to solo driving.

Activities to support resilient livelihoods must be combined with peacebuilding, conflict resolution efforts, and investment in food security.

Food insecurity plays a critical and complex role in Myanmar's current political turmoil, and has played a similar role in uprisings of the past.

Catch the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development in our Global Food for Thought news brief.

Can an administration that up to this point has been belligerent towards traditional US democratic allies and has rejected many forms of multilateralism be able to turn the page and shift from "America First" to "American Led"?

Europe's attempts to diversify its gas supplies could have unintended and negative consequences for climate progress, writes Chris Morris.

In deciding when and how quickly to relax restrictions, leaders should not underestimate the American public’s forbearance for remaining indoors.

New survey results suggest that President-elect Biden will have to work hard to cultivate bipartisan buy-in for efforts to rein in the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Viruses don't respect borders and neither do their knock-on effects,” Elizabeth Shackelford writes in the Chicago Tribune. “An uncontrolled outbreak in a country of 1.4 billion people is a crisis for all.”

In the battle between pathogen and host—whether a human or food crop—it’s often a deadly race to see who wins.

Our weekly roundup the top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog post, Alesha Black shares what hopeful news is emerging in America during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Catch the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development in our Global Food for Thought news brief.

In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog, we explain public opinion views on COVID-19 for the week of June 3, 2020.