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Food and Agriculture
Wild Pigs, Lab Foie Gras, and Drought Reroute | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Our weekly roundup of the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.
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Zhipeng Ya
Japanese Public Backs Additional Measures to Fight Coronavirus Outbreak | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog Craig Kafura explains Japans Coronavirus Measures.
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REUTERS
How China's COVID Lockdowns Affect the Global Economy | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
What does China’s economic slowdown mean for the world? UC San Diego's Victor Shih joins Deep Dish to discuss.
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Climate and the Environment
We Need to Take Action Now to Protect the Amazon Basin | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
The Council's Robert Muggah offers TEDxSaoPaulo five priorities to disrupt the crime and corruption that threatens not just Latin America, but the world.
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Reuters
Policies to Support Nutrition-Sensitive Food Systems | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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.
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Global Cities
Are Urbanites Willing to Ditch Cars for More Sustainable Commutes? | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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.
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REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Agricultural Investment: Foreign Aid for Global Prosperity | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Activities to support resilient livelihoods must be combined with peacebuilding, conflict resolution efforts, and investment in food security.
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Reuters
The Links Between Hunger and Unrest in Myanmar and Beyond | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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.
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Feed the Future
Women's Work, African Swine Fever Ripples, & Urban Growing | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Catch the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development in our Global Food for Thought news brief.
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James Balensiefen
Alliance of Democracies - from America First to American Led | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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"?
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REUTERS
Europe Replaces Russia's Gas, Risks Climate Goals | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Europe's attempts to diversify its gas supplies could have unintended and negative consequences for climate progress, writes Chris Morris.
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Reuters
Americans Understand the Importance of Social Distancing | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In deciding when and how quickly to relax restrictions, leaders should not underestimate the American public’s forbearance for remaining indoors.
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Global Health
On COVID-19, Foreign Policy Elites are Just as Polarized as the Public
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.
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REUTERS
India's COVID-19 Crisis Pushes the US to Get Vaccine Diplomacy Right
“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.”
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Kansas State University
We Need Vaccines to Protect Our Food Crops, Too | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In the battle between pathogen and host—whether a human or food crop—it’s often a deadly race to see who wins.
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REUTERS
Strategic Leniency, Golden Rice, and a Fertilizer Ban | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Our weekly roundup the top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.
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Global Health
Seven Reasons to Feel Hopeful About the Food System in the Midst of the Pandemic | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog post, Alesha Black shares what hopeful news is emerging in America during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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REUTERS
Avocados, 100 Days of Protest, and Pineapple Politics | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Catch the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development in our Global Food for Thought news brief.
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Emerging Leaders Class of 2022 | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
The Emerging Leaders Class of 2022 spends a year examining key issues that affect the world and impact the global city of Chicago. https://globalaffairs.org/about-us/leadership-development-opportunities/emerging-leaders-program/program-alumni/2022 -
Brian McGowan
As Countries Reopen, Publics Concerned About Possible Second Wave | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog, we explain public opinion views on COVID-19 for the week of June 3, 2020.
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Simon Fangers
Shaping Future-Ready Food Systems, One Crop at a Time | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In this blog post from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Jacqueline Hughes discusses the sustainability of food systems.
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Davide Cantelli
Five Deep Dish Episodes to Explain the World Right Now | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Deep Dish host Brian Hanson shares five recent episodes that help explain what’s happening in our world today and why these issues are so important.
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REUTERS
Germany's Coup Plot and the Threat to Democracy in an Age of Conspiracy | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
A plot to overthrow the German government highlights the risks—and reach—of unchecked conspiracy in an age of mistrust, writes Chris Morris.
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Global Health
Global Public Opinion Shows Partial Return to Normalcy, Optimism | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
COVID-19 cases are on the decline worldwide and in some countries, people are feeling hopeful as they recover aspects of their pre-COVID lives.
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Anne Thurow
Beating the Odds: The Mothers and Children of the 1,000 Days Movement | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Ten years after The First 1,000 Days book began, Roger Thurow revisits the featured mothers and children to see how they are faring.
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Heifer International
One Child, One Classroom – The Lifelong Cost of Malnutrition | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia each lose about 11 percent of GDP annually. In our global economy, a stunted child anywhere becomes a stunted child everywhere.
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REUTERS
Publics React to Mandatory Vaccination, the Olympics, and Governments' COVID Management | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Populations around the world remain divided over how comfortable they are returning to normal life as the Delta variant spreads.
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Eric Allix Rogers
The Right to the Shoreline: Race, Exclusion, and Public Beaches in Metropolitan Chicago | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
By combatting erosion and flooding along Lake Michigan’s shore, local governments have an opportunity to make their beaches more equitable.
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Brian McGowan
Publics Remain Supportive of Policies to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog Craig Kafura, Brendan Helm, Jack Benjamin, Eliza Posner explains Public Opinon on Coronavirus for the week of May 6.
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AP Photos
From Stability to Prosperity: Understanding Costa Rica's Success | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Deep Dish explores what makes Costa Rica a shining example of functionality.
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Public Opinion
21 Years after 9/11, Americans Are Less Concerned about Terrorism | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In 2002, nine in 10 Americans saw international terrorism as a critical threat. About six in 10 do today, Council polling shows.
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Reuters
One-quarter of South Koreans Ready to Wear Masks Indefinitely | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
While Americans continue a culture war on the necessity and effectiveness of masks, one-quarter of the South Korean public is ready to wear them indefinitely.
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REUTERS
President Xi Jinping lifts COVID lockdowns after China protests
The 2022 protests in China have led President Xi Jinping to lift COVID lockdowns. Students held white paper protests to ask for freedom and democracy.
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Global Politics
Toward City Diplomacy: Assessing Capacity in Select Global Cities | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Cities are now more connected than ever before on a global scale. Yet local governments are not just spectators of this networked age: they are actively forging links across borders, taking part in setting the international agenda, and shifting the
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Jessica Ames
Dietary Diversity for Women Improves Nutrition Security for All | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Long before the pandemic, evidence showed a persistent deficiency in food intake of women in India. A convergence of policies and programs across sectors can boost the nutrition security of women and their communities.
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Reuters
Republicans and Democrats in Different Worlds on Climate Change | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
As President Biden heads to the UN Climate Change Conference, he will grapple with significant divides in domestic public opinion.
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Brielle French
South Koreans Becoming More Accepting of LGBTQ Community | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Although data shows South Koreans remain uncomfortable with homosexuality, recent trends show an increase in acceptance.
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Martin Sanchez
How Do Attitudes about the Coronavirus Response Differ in Russia and the United States? | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Survey data shows that Russians are more likely than Americans to say that their nation's government handled the coronavirus pandemic effectively.
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Macau Photo Agency
As Vaccinations Increase, Global Public Opinion Shows Varied Sentiments | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Outbreaks continue to emerge even as vaccinations increase; some countries feel safe to engage in more normal activities while others introduce new restrictions.
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US Embassy
Breeding Crops for Climate Resilience: Visions from Haiti, Costa Rica, Uganda, Malawi, and Senegal | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
This blog is about the disruption and impact COVID-19 has had on climate change and food systems around the world.
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TechnoServe
When Intermediary Links in the Supply Chain are Weakened, the Whole Food System Suffers | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Businesses in the center of the value chain are crucial to the food system, and these intermediary links are under threat from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Reuters
Joe Manchin: The Voice of Moderate Democrats? Or a Party Outlier? | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
As President Biden heads to the UN climate summit, one Senator has gutted his plans for clean energy reform.
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Reuters
As Vaccination Campaigns Continue Around the World, Restrictions Lift and Optimism Spreads | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Some countries, now awash in vaccines, are looking abroad to help other countries combat the pandemic. For those with slower rollouts, the fight against the pandemic continues.
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Mx. Granger
Immigration Policies Could Create Risks for Candidates on Both Sides | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog, Dina Smeltz and Brendan Helm explain immigration policy risks for presidential candidates.
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Public Opinion
Do Republicans and Democrats Want a Cold War with China? | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura analyze survey data showing that for the first time in nearly two decades, a majority of Americans describe the development of China as a world power as a critical threat to the United States.
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Herman Van Rompuy
Putin Keeps Experts Guessing about His Post-2024 Plans | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog Brendan Helm, Dina Smeltz, and Arik Burakovsky explain Putin’s 2024 plans.
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REUTERS
Vaccinations Bring Hope; Brazil Death Toll Mounts; One Month to Tokyo | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
In some countries the year of the pandemic is coming to a close, with successful vaccination campaigns providing an exit from pandemic restrictions. But that’s not the case everywhere.
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UC Davis
Working Together to Tackle Food Insecurity in Tanzania and Ghana | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Through selective breeding of African indigenous chickens to improve small scale poultry production, we can tackle food insecurity in Tanzania and Ghana.
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Global Health
Urban Governance: Cities in a Time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the quality of governance and competence of the world’s leaders. When politicians and civil servants fail to deliver, they quickly lose credibility and legitimacy.
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Public Opinion
As Virus Spreads Unevenly, Global Public Opinion Shows Mixed Feelings | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
While some countries are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel, others continue to struggle through the crisis as case numbers remain elevated.