Proposing nonpartisan policy solutions to food and water insecurity in the U.S. and around the world.
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🌍 Happy #WorldFoodDay! Today, we're grateful for the people and organizations around the world who contribute expertise that advances food security for everyone, everywhere.
Check out our October newsletter for more reflections and recent work: cs.is/4yqwcQj
What forces are squeezing U.S. farmers?
@CSIS Senior Adviser (Non-resident) @JoeGlauber1 joined @Bloomberg's Trumponomics podcast to discuss falling crop prices, elevated fertilizer & diesel costs, and global trade disruptions:
Listen to the episode: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Join us TODAY at 10:00 AM E.T. for "AI for Development: A Conversation with @Gaurav__Nayyar, Director of the @WorldBankGroup World Development Report 2026," moderated by EST President @NGirishankar.
Watch here: csis.org/events/ai-developme…
CSIS Food & Water Security Program retweeted
The State Department is reportedly weighing whether to end funding for the 40-year-old famine monitor just as a "Super El Niño" threatens to push tens of millions more people into acute hunger. devex.com/news/scoop-lawmake…
AI development is accelerating too fast & the cost of global hunger is too great for decisionmakers, technologists, & implementors not to use the tools at their disposal.
See how early warning systems, crop breeding, & advanced farming are interconnected: cs.is/4yQKTgd
With #ClimateWeek in New York City underway, AI is emerging as one tool that could help us better anticipate and respond to growing pressures on global food systems.
Explore more in a new @CSIS digital report: cs.is/4yQKTgd
CSIS Food & Water Security Program retweeted
NEW | As pressures on global food systems mount, the world urgently needs a new revolution to help end global hunger.
🧵 New analysis from @CSISFoodWater explores the complexities of AI’s seismic potential impact on global food security: features.csis.org/ai-to-figh…
Since 2020, @foodbankmetrodc has produced an annual Hunger Report detailing the food-insecurity crisis in the Greater Washington region.
Join us at @CSIS on Tuesday, September 15, from 3:30–5:30PM ET for the launch of this year’s report.
Register now: cs.is/4qA1rWH
NEW: Join us for the launch of @foodbankmetrodc's 2026 Hunger Report, which provides a comprehensive, data-driven look at food insecurity in the Greater Washington region.
📅 Tuesday, September 15
⏰ 3:30–5:30PM ET
📍 In-Person/Webcast
Register here: cs.is/4qA1rWH
CSIS Food & Water Security Program retweeted
"AI is already being applied across food systems at local, regional, national, and global levels... many of them share a common goal of turning complex signals into better decisionmaking for food system actors," write @CSISFoodWater experts.
Read: csis.org/analysis/ai-and-glo…
"Beijing has found ways to leverage its extraordinary need for food imports as a source of strength on the world stage," write @CSIS experts Caitlin Welsh (@welshce) and Brian Hart in @ForeignAffairs.
Read the full piece here: foreignaffairs.com/china/chi…
CSIS Food & Water Security Program retweeted
As AI is increasingly applied for individual use cases, it becomes more important to ensure AI applications within a food system meets standards for data accuracy, availability, and safety more broadly, write @CSISFoodWater experts.
Read:csis.org/analysis/ai-and-glo…
NEW: AI offers significant potential to improve efficiency, sustainability, and resilience across food systems.
The latest by @Zane_S_Swanson, Emma Curtis, and @welshce examines the benefits and potential risks of AI for global food systems. Read here: cs.is/3UdkDgX
CSIS Food & Water Security Program retweeted
“China’s continued inability to produce the food it needs presents existential vulnerabilities for Beijing,” write @welshce and @BrianTHart. “Yet paradoxically, Beijing has found ways to leverage its extraordinary need for food imports as a source of strength on the world stage.” bit.ly/4wpvZvU
CSIS Food & Water Security Program retweeted
The Iran war made it clear that large-scale desalination in the Gulf is both indispensable and dangerously exposed.
Our expert Franck Gbaguidi says the lesson for policymakers is that overreliance on a single, centralized water source—especially mega-desalination in a more contested environment—is untenable.
@CSIS
csis.org/analysis/rethinking…
Water has moved from a development risk to a frontline security challenge as scarcity, mismanagement, climate volatility, and conflict converge on water-insecure populations.
🧵 Follow the thread below for more insights: cs.is/4xiSzXK
Over the medium to long term, governments should pursue a more diversified “water mix,” analogous to the “energy mix,” pairing desalination with wastewater reuse, improved groundwater management and recharge, rainwater capture, and more distributed treatment systems.
Governments should also increasingly integrate water into national security strategies, tighten scrutiny of foreign investment in critical water assets, and, however imperfectly, seek to develop norms against weaponizing water infrastructure.
Read more: cs.is/4xiSzXK