Publications

https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/sites/default/files/ysk_warmwinters.jpg Global Food & Agriculture 0Research March 20, 2017 While Chicagoans may have enjoyed one of the warmest winters on record, the early spring-like weather has real, negative conseq ...


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Isabel DoCampo's blog In the lead up to the  2017 Global Food Security Symposium, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs are collaborating to produce Food Security, a podcast examining nutrition, hunger, and ...


Events

What should our food system look like? According to the USDA, American consumption of local foods has tripled in the past two decades and demand is predicted to be worth over $20 billion by 2019. And yet, markets continue to expand globally, connecting ru ...


Events

Following the program, “ Farm-to-Global Table: Our Interconnected World,” leadership supporters at the President's Circle Silver level and higher are invited to a dinner with Chef Joy Crump and Executive Vice President of the James Beard Foundation, ...


External Commentary

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2017/04/05/w... Dan Glickman, Doug Bereuter April 5, 2017 Des Moines RegisterGlobal Food & AgricultureGlobal Food & Agriculture Dan Glickman, Doug Bereuter ...


Events

Immediately following the public program, " Farm-to-Global Table: Our Interconnected World,"  Council Young Professionals are invited to join us for continued conversation. “YP Meet-Ups” are informal events following select programming, and give ...


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Isabel DoCampo's blog On Thursday, June 15, Roger Thurow testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations on the individual, societal, and economic costs of malnutr ...



Expert

Ertharin Cousin is a distinguished fellow of global agriculture at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.   She previously served as executive director of the World Food Programme from 2012 until 2017. In this role, Cousin led the world’s largest humanita ...


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Isabel DoCampo's blog As part of Farming First's #SDG2countdown campaign, which explores SDG2.2 on ending malnutrition, Roger Thurow talks about the individual and societal consequences of malnutrition in the first 1,000 days.  This video origin ...