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The Ethiopian government is using starvation as a weapon of war against Tigray, inducing a massive famine that requires immediate action from the international community.

Mass arrests have reduced crime in the short-term—but at a significant cost to human rights.

From Medellín to Chicago, digital nomads are on the rise, contributing significantly to the global economy. But locals worry these visitors are pricing them out.

This book provides the non-specialist reader with the background to understand the debates about trade.

In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog post, Alesha Black explores the complexities of water governance in cities and in agriculture.

This paper provides guidance for new leaders through various stages of the early days of UN leadership.

Safeguarding methods of democratic influence is a core strategic mandate for city governments to legitimize technology.

Xuefei Ren argues that cities in China and India are more aptly compared in territorial vs. associational governance than by regime type.

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 change and other shocks. In collaboration with the Farm Journal Foundation, the

After nearly four years at the Council, Alesha Black, the Center on Global Food and Agriculture managing director, steps down.

Any city aspiring to play on the global league needs to focus on infrastructure to court the people and the businesses who can afford to live anywhere.

Local strategies can revive economies, nurture hope, and diminish the appeal of antidemocratic populism in struggling industrial regions.

Scott MacMillan recalls 2015 World Food Prize winner Fazle Hasan Abed's legacy and its impact on food security.

Local leadership plays a critical role in responding to climate threats and addressing the challenges associated with migration, the report's authors find.

Millions of Americans live in urban food deserts without access to fresh food. A Council Emerging Leaders report details how some cities are beginning to find a way forward.

A military strengthened by American training, weapons, and intelligence helped create the very problem US assistance was meant to prevent.

The energy transition in African cities marks a key site of geopolitical competition, as China's control of the solar market reshapes urban service delivery.

The world needs a healthier food environment that is easier for everyday people to navigate in order to achieve nutrition security.

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs report recommends Chicago’s leaders focus on priorities of infrastructure, human capital, and global engagement.

The Chicago City Council has tripled its legislation on foreign policy in the last four years.

Mayhem in Westminster has roots in Brexit and a political culture that favors dogma over evidence, argues columnist Chris Morris.

The recent terrorist attack in Brussels is prompting serious and important thinking about the security of global cities. 

Recent summits between Korean and American leaders may determine whether diplomacy or military confrontation will prevail in engaging North Korea.

If food waste were a country, it would be the world's third-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China and the US.

The Queen maintained public approval during her reign, but support for the monarchy is on the decline, posing significant challenges for the new King.

Ivo Daalder discusses the annual Munich Security Conference.

Robert Paarlberg challenges the UN to look beyond food access to food excess and the health issues that accompany it.

If CRISPR crops can avoid being regulated like GMOs, they can create significant opportunities for low- and middle-income countries, and help combat hunger and poverty.

Micromobility can play a major role in transportation decarbonization, but its potential varies depending on the conditions in which it's employed.

The United States has made big pledges for global nutrition. Our white paper offers recommendations to turn commitments into action.

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.

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

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

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

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

Council expert Ian Klaus examines how history will remember the almost simultaneous global mobilization of policy and resources, as well as local urban adaptations and interventions.