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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Check out our weekly roundup of the week's top stories in food, agriculture, and global development.

There is no understanding geopolitical competition in the 21st century without an understanding of urbanization and cities.

This report looks at chronic violence and community resilience in the US and around the world and makes policy recommendations for addressing chronic violence in urban areas.

The question of whether global cities should have their own foreign policy has been hotly debated, but recent developments have changed the calculus.

In the most globally connected financial capitals, skyscrapers will continue to serve as a key component of the built environment.

Paul Newnham identifies key gaps in efforts to end hunger, and offers solutions to break down silos and build up food systems.

Cities have been called bastions of democracy, but authoritarian leaders across the globe are articulating their own visions for the future of urban spaces.

Nonresident Fellow Sascha Haselmayer discusses his new book, which synthesizes the lessons he learned from his work with cities, governments, and NGOs.

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs report show the rising youth population could be a demographic challenge for food-insecure nations, if not managed properly.

In this blog post from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, we discuss if the European Union can stay politically relevant after COVID-19 and Brexit.

The Council convened a task force to provide recommendations to advance the goals of the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.

Mexico's threat to ban GM corn presents an opportunity to re-evaluate agricultural norms in the United States and address inequities in trade.

The world's democracies need a way to fight back against coercive economic actions by authoritarian governments, argue Ivo Daalder and Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog post explores if economic inequality is the inevitable consequence of becoming a globally powerful city.

Ian Klaus explores the “City and State Diplomacy Act” that seeks to mandate an official ambassador for State and municipal relations with foreign governments.

The Great Lakes have always been the foundation of the Midwest economy, but in a world where fresh water is in short supply, this resource is more valuable than ever.

USAID announces sweeping changes toward localization addressing questions about the efficacy of development programming modalities.

Recent polling on South Korea's Moon Jae-in may be less encouraging than it seems.

With so much activity around cities in today's world, there is a lot to track. Here are ten trends in 2020 to watch where cities will be particularly influential on the global stage.

Using Chicago as a model, this report outlines big data strategies for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of cities around the world.

Economic sanctions: what they are, how the US has used them in foreign policy, and considerations for current policymakers.