Failure to treat water as a strategic, valuable, and limited resource is a direct threat to the global economy; the health of our planet; and the well-being of both current and future generations of humanity.

With global and local markets disrupted by COVID-19, it is vital that the World Food Programme maintain its food assistance programmes, which offer a lifeline to 87 million vulnerable people around the world.

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.

Were the recommendations in the Center on Global Food and Agriculture's 2015 nutrition report successful? The Council examines this question in the third part of our 2021-22 series to find out.

Guest authors Chris Kennedy and Bob Easter examine how a collaborative effort to bring a disease-resistant potato variety to market in Africa can promote global food security.

May 30, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Candace Rondeaux , Heela Rasool-Ayub , and Deborah Avant, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), Most Americans see military power and security alliances as an effective way to achieve foreign policy goals, but differences em...

Many of the challenges the world faced in 2020 will continue to shape our world next year.

Cities must step up when nation-states ignore the devastating impacts and economic costs of climate change, sea level rise, and environmental degradation.

As COVID-19 spreads around the world, Council expert Robert Muggah shares his viewpoints on pandemics, why they are becoming more common, and how cities can help minimize current and future threats.

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