The management of natural resources is critical for planetary health – an emerging discipline focused on understanding the inextricable links between our environment and health. Deforestation, erosion, water scarcity, and climate change are just some of t ...
Obesity is a growing global pandemic. The complexity of the problem—which spans areas from poverty and food insecurity to culture, societal norms, federal and state policies, community resources, and individual behavior—makes it difficult to address, and ...
Julia Whiting joined the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in 2019 and is a research associate with the Global Food and Agriculture Program. She supports the development of research reports on global food security issues as well as coordinating digital en ...
An estimated 3 billion of the world’s 6.9 billion people live in rural areas of the developing world. More than 60 percent of them live in poverty. Poverty affects women and girls disproportionately; rural girls face the triple challenges to their empower ...
This paper seeks to raise awareness of the growing global obesity epidemic and the need to address the economic, security, and humanitarian threats it poses for the United States and the world. While the development community—including global agriculture, ...
Our food system is changing- can we change with it? Investing in innovation has the power to disrupt and shape our future. Join us to discover how innovation is changing the way consumers, in the United States and abroad, think about the food system and h ...
Achieving universal primary education and eliminating gender disparity in primary and secondary education have been among the global development community’s goals for two decades. As a fundamental requirement for lifelong health and opportunity, education ...
COVID-19 has had large scale impacts on the global food system, affecting everything from supply chains and markets to agriculture production and the labor force. Sara Menker of Gro Intelligence and Sanjeev Krishnan of S2G Ventures join Laura Reiley of Th ...
What do climate change and pandemics have in common? Although experts have long warned of the dire consequences of these threats, the world remains woefully unprepared to solve them. Yet, as governments have taken drastic actions to respond to COVID-19, t ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has pulled back the curtain and revealed the fragility of our global food supply chain. The health and economic crises have triggered a food crisis, resulting in trade disruptions, soaring food prices, and labor shortages. According ...
