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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Ivo Daalder discusses the annual Munich Security Conference.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

In this brief, we ask why the WTO is worth saving, consider the complaints lodged against it, and suggest what would be required for a serious rescue attempt.

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.

Recent years have tested the resiliency of farmers with trade wars, catastrophic floods, and now the COVID-19 pandemic, but farmers are still farming.

American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous.

Agri-Pulse and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs team up to explore how the US agriculture and food sector can advance food security.

Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford reflects on how the Council helps students dive in.

In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog Todd Post explains the future of food in times of change.

This report includes recommendations for how girls in rural communities can be better supported through improved personal and professional development, health, and safety.

A collaboration with Chicago Public Art Group brings to life a Council report exploring the racist origins of Chicagoland's public beach policies.

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