American attitudes toward restoring ties with Cuba differ widely on who is asked – Americans overall, Latinos, Floridians, Cuban Americans, and most particularly, Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade County.
The Midwest is sitting on the resource that will shape the future, and it’s just beginning to think what it can do with it. No, it’s not oil. Nor iron, steel or farmland, the resources that powered its industrial-era economy. It’s water. Or rather, fresh water, the useful low-salt variety that is in increasingly short supply around the country and around the world.
The Chicago Council’s recent report, Grow Markets, Fight Hunger: a Food Security Framework for US-Africa Trade Relations, is currently featured on Republic 3.0 and Ideas Lab.
Marc Albertsen, ABS Research Lead and Research Director at DuPont Pioneer, explains how the African Biofortified Sorghum public-private collaboration is working to help improve nutrition.
The next installment in the Healthy Food for a Healthy World series explores how climate change puts global nutrition at risk- and how smallholder farmers' climate resilience will be crucial.
The Indiana legislature recently passed a bill, signed by Gov. Mike Pence that, in effect, authorizes businesses in that state to discriminate against gays and lesbians. Pence and the Indiana legislature claim the bill is meant to protect religious freedom, not to discriminate against any group. Not surprisingly, nobody believes them, especially as their's isn't the only Midwestern state passing this type of legislation.
In this guest post, Frieder Haenisch and Anna Gould discuss how a new generation of dynamic, well-connected leaders can build a better, food-secure future.
