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Anonymous's blog By Dr. Gregory Myers This post is part of a series developed by   The Chicago Council on Global Affairs   and   Landesa   to highlight the importance of securing land rights for smallholder farmers. This series is running concurrentl ...



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Anonymous's blog The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Landesa will feature expert commentaries to examine the relationship between land rights and food security, starting next Monday. This series will feature commentaries from food security and ...


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Anonymous's blog On May 22 in Washington, DC, global leaders will convene at The Chicago Council's Global Food Security Symposium 2014 to chart a course for how the US government, in partnership with business and civil society and international ...


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Anonymous's blog Join us on March 19 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. EST  for an interactive discussion on Twitter with global hunger and nutrition expert,  Roger Thurow. Roger is senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy at The Chicago Council on Glo ...


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Anonymous's blog The American Association for the Advancement of Scientists (AAAS) published a new report, What we Know, urging Americans to take actions on climate change.  The report presents three key messages: climate scientists agree: climate ch ...


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Anonymous's blog Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, spoke at the American Enterprise Institute about the foundation’s efforts to eradicate global hunger and poverty.  Get The Chicago Council’s FREE Global Food for Though ...


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Anonymous's blog Roger Thurow delivered the keynote at the Universities Fighting World Hunger summit on March 1. Click here to watch his speech (at the 14:00 min mark).  Get The Chicago Council’s FREE Global Food for Thought News Brief delivered to y ...


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Anonymous's blog) Secretary Dan Glickman, APCO International Advisory Council member and co-chair of the Chicago Council's Global Agricultural Development Initiative, talked about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the ...


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Anonymous's blog This post originally appeared on  WFP USA Blog.   After 10 years leading the UN World Food Programme, Catherine Bertini decided to tackle a major root cause for food insecurity—lack of education. She launched the  Catherine Bertini T ...