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Down and Dirty: The Global Fertilizer DilemmaFeeding the world's eight billion people has never been easy. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine shocked the market for fertilizer, that task has gotten even harder. The fertilizer crisis threatens to exacerbate food insecurity worldwide, especially in low-income countries already reeling from record-high inflation and rapidly depreciating currencies. What is fertilizer’s role in the food supply chain?
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Women This Week: Children in South Asia Represent Plurality of Global Child Brides, UNICEF ReportsWelcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers April 22 to April 28.
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Water Stress: A Global Problem That’s Getting WorseWater scarcity threatens the health and development of communities around the globe. Climate change is intensifying the problem, pushing governments to find more innovative, collaborative ways to address water stress.
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How U.S. Water Infrastructure WorksThe sprawling U.S. water system is central to the nation’s economy, but chronic underinvestment, increasing demand, and the consequences of climate change have revealed the system’s weaknesses.
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Lessons Learned With Margaret (Peggy) HamburgPeggy Hamburg discusses her distinguished career as an internationally recognized leader in science, medicine, and public health. Hamburg served as the twenty-first commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine, and the founding vice president and senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and currently chairs the Harvard Medical School board of fellows and serves on numerous other nonprofit boards and advisory councils. Lessons Learned is a roundtable series, open to term members and younger life members, which features distinguished speakers who reflect on their career experiences, the choices they made along the way, and the lessons they have learned from them.
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China Increasingly Relies on Imported Food. That’s a Problem.China has so far been able to feed its 1.4 billion people, but climate change and a dependence on imports could pose challenges.
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Visualizing 2023: Trends to WatchUsing charts, CFR experts track developments that could shape the year ahead.
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The Crisis of the Century: How the United States Can Protect Climate MigrantsThe disastrous effects of climate change could displace more than a billion people in the next thirty years. International and domestic legal systems cannot continue to let climate migrants slip through the cracks.
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A Conversation With David BeasleyDavid Beasley discusses the global food crisis, including how the UN World Food Program is working to respond to increasing global food insecurity as a result of the conflict in Ukraine.
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2022 International Affairs Fellowship (IAF) Conference Keynote Session With Samantha PowerUSAID Administrator Samantha Power discusses the pivotal moment we face to strengthen democracy and reverse the rise of authoritarianism across the world, and USAID's efforts to mitigate the global food crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. For more information about the International Affairs Fellowship (IAF), please visit CFR’s Fellowship Affairs Page.
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Three Challenges That Are Testing Iran’s RegimeIran is facing international pressure over its nuclear program and assassinations of top officials. Meanwhile, its move to lift subsidies could stir public revolt.
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How Russia’s War in Ukraine Could Amplify Food Insecurity in the MideastThe war is threatening the region’s access to much-needed supplies, but certain countries are more vulnerable than others to food shortages and unrest.
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East Africa’s Growing Food Crisis: What to KnowConflicts in Ethiopia and Ukraine are exacerbating food scarcity in a region where millions of people already suffer from severe hunger.
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Understanding the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs ActHeidi Crebo-Rediker, adjunct senior fellow at CFR, will discuss the provisions in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and implications for infrastructure projects at the stat…
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Addressing Food Insecurity Around the WorldEugene Cho, president and CEO at Bread for the World, and Ertharin Cousin, visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Food Security and the Environment, discuss the work of faith communities…