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Chinese officials have elevated food security as a policy priority, and they're taking seeds seriously.

Through their connection to traditional food practices, dandelions challenge colonized notions of food security and provide students with the opportunity to reconnect with Indigenous food systems.

This report is a collection of perspectives from 20 authors that highlights the needs of rural girls and solutions to the challenges they face.

This report examines the urgent challenges created by water scarcity and the impact on food security.

The benefits cities gain from the prestige associated with hosting the Olympics do not offset the human costs reported every year the Games are held.

The Detroit Future City plan seeks to address the city's decades of decline and calls for returning portions of vacant land to natural and agricultural uses.

China’s growing contributions to African development should not automatically be feared, but their presence should recalibrate US approaches.

Canada's national sport, hockey, is coming back in a bubble. Will Canadians tune in?

The new paradigm of "mobility as a service" promises to change how people move, with local and global ramifications.

While the water footprint of livestock is substantive, the cost of that footprint is far from straightforward.

To pass legislation and end any uncertainty swirling around the trade pact, NAFTA's new labor chapter may need further tweaking.

Like global cities before them, many ambitious secondary cities are escaping their isolated orbits and redefining the hierarchy of the global urban cosmos.

Suzanne Akhras Sahloul discusses the positive impact of refugees and immigrants on communities in Chicago.

The summer’s record temperatures have reignited the international farmworker health crisis.

Childhood malnutrition can forever change the course of someone's life.

The inclusion of gender mainstreaming in agricultural AI can help reduce gender inequity for female smallholder farmers.

The Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award finalist discusses how infrastructure like transit impacts the daily lives of city residents.

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—have conspired to keep the

What is a global city? In the age of globalization, these cities and their corporations, universities, media, and culture run the global economy.

The Council and Girl Security partnered to engage the next generation of women in national security.