Activities to support resilient livelihoods must be combined with peacebuilding, conflict resolution efforts, and investment in food security.

A Council working paper shows the climate benefits of shared mobility, but urban leaders must implement policies that make it safer and more accessible.

Chicago already has one of the nation’s largest food manufacturing workforces. The city is positioning itself to become the global leader in food innovation and manufacturing.

Check out the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

September 22, 2020, RESEARCH Report by Samuel Kling and Lucas Stephens, PhD, Eric Allix Rogers, Download Report (PDF), The growing role of federal and state money in combatting erosion and flooding at Chicago’s Lake Michigan shore offers an opportunity to mandate local governments make their be...

March 20, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP, Download Report (PDF), While down slightly from last year, more than half support continuing military and economic assistance to Kyiv. But the results are highly partisan., While the world...

April 15, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz , Dina Smeltz , Denis Volkov , and Stepan Goncharov, Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP, Download Report (PDF), Before the Crocus City Hall attack, a plurality of Russian young adults said Russia’s top foreign policy priority should be bo...

August 22, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, Libkos / AP, Download Report (PDF), Most Americans support sending additional aid to Ukraine and increasing sanctions on Russia, and relatively few want to withdraw support for Kyiv., Earlier this month, Ukraine launc...

France's presidential election offers fresh insight into the relationship between post-industrial regions and partisan politics.