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USAID Provides Critical Benefits to US National Security
The Trump Administration’s effort to try to shut down USAID and pause all foreign aid directly harms US national security, including by interrupting critical investments into resilience, adaptation, conflict prevention, and peacebuilding. In 2021, 79 senior national security leaders, including 8 retired 4-star generals and admirals, a former Director of National Intelligence, and a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, signed the Challenge Accepted report, which argued that USAID investments in resilience and adaptation were critical to preventing instability and conflict and maintaining the US competitive edge with China.
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Feeding Resilience: The National Security Imperative of USAID’s Food Security Programs
As of today, the Trump Administration has paused two essential US global food security initiatives, Feed the Future and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). Created in reaction to the 2007-8 global food crisis and resulting instability, Feed the Future is a marquee US government food security program and tool for implementing the bipartisan Global Food Security Act, working in 20 countries to build a more resilient food system and supporting agricultural innovation at 17 US universities. Operating since 1985, FEWS NET provides rigorous analysis and forecasting of acute food insecurity to inform US and other humanitarian responses in 30 countries.
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Event Recap: Feeding Resilience: Interagency Coordination and Foresight
By Tom Ellison and Noah Fritzhand
On 22 October, the Center for Climate and Security brought together current and former US government officials, scientists, and researchers to discuss two topics that the Feeding Resilience program has identified as essential to progress at the nexus of food systems, climate change, and US national security: improved US government interagency coordination and better deployment of strategic foresight capabilities. The discussion was held under the Chatham House Rule.
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Marketplace Podcast Highlights Center for Climate and Security Experts
For the past six years, the radio program Marketplace, hosted by Kai Ryssdal, has run a “climate solutions” podcast called “How We Survive.” The latest season, which debuted last month, focuses on the intersection of climate change and national security – specifically, how the US military is dealing with, and could ultimately shape, the changing climate. Ryssdal himself served in the Navy during the 1980s but, by his own admission, never heard much about climate change or global warming during his time in uniform. Forty years later, however, it’s become a major topic of discussion and debate within the Department of Defense (DoD). Over six episodes, Ryssdal explores those debates and speaks with a number of prominent members of the Center for Climate and Security (CCS).
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