thurow-ted-talk.jpg Anonymous's blog Roger Thurow, senior fellow with the Chicago Council's Global Agricultural Development Initiative, gave a TEDxChange talk in Seattle on April 3. He recounts his experiences in Ethiopia during the famine and ...
Anonymous's blog As word spread earlier this week of the food aid reform section of President Obama’s 2014 budget, I wondered how Jerman Amente would greet the news. He was a wiry 39-year-old Ethiopian farmer and grain trader when I first met him ba ...
Join The Chicago Council, the International Women Associates, and the Chicago Foundation for Women for a discussion of the 15th State of the World’s Mothers report from Save the Children. The world has made great progress in reducing child mortality – the ...
A new report from The Chicago Council on Global Affairs urges the US government to focus its global food security strategy on prioritizing science, increasing trade flows for agriculture and food, and incentivizing greater business activity in low-income c ...
On April 24, 2013, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released a report, Agricultural Innovation: The United States in a Changing Global Reality, that examines the implications of the increasingly influential roles of global business, Brazil, China, and ...
The for-profit sector is now a critical player in the shift from subsistence agricultural economies, where poverty and uncertainty perpetuate hunger, toward well-functioning commercial systems, where farmers can afford needed inputs and reach cash markets. ...
Launched in February 2011, The Chicago Council’s Healthy Agriculture, Food, and Non-Communicable Diseases project explores the relationship between agriculture, food, and the global rise in nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). A report, Brin ...
In August 2010, The Chicago Council announced an initiative to bring attention to the role of girls in rural economies of developing countries and identify opportunities to increase investment in women and girls as a tool for economic growth and social st ...
A Statement to the United States Congress by Members of the Advisory Group of the Global Agricultural Development Initiative Issued by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs November 14, 2011 THE CHALLENGE: Feeding the World World population reached 7 bill ...
Just a few weeks ago the global community welcomed the arrival of its seven billionth citizen. Despite gains in agricultural rese arch and development over the past half-century, the odds are not favorable that this child will have enough to eat as she gro ...
