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Global measure underestimates the severity of food insecurity

University of California - Santa Barbara
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Before you can address a problem, you need to understand its scope. That’s why the United Nations developed the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification System. Aid organizations rely on analyses from this global partnership, which monitors and classifies the severity of food insecurity to help target assistance where and when it is most needed.

Journal: Nature Food

Applications open for funding to conduct research in the Kinsey Institute archives

Kinsey Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

The Kinsey Institute announced two competitive funding opportunities for proposals to conduct research in the Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections at Indiana University Bloomington. The awards will support in-person research leveraging the Kinsey Institute's world-renowned archives, with applicants across a wide range of disciplines encouraged to apply by February 13, 2026.

Jeonbuk National University researcher proposes a proposing a two-stage decision-making framework of lithium governance in Latin America

Jeonbuk National University, Sustainable Strategy team, Planning and Coordination Division
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lithium is a strategically very important mineral in the present decade. Latin American countries, with their abundant resources, have taken divergent paths in terms of governance strategies. In a recent study, a researcher from Jeonbuk National University has proposed a two-stage decision-making framework to explain this trend, providing a useful starting point for examining how states navigate the interplay between external pressures and domestic structural constraints in governing lithium industries.

Journal: The Extractive Industries and Society

The Showgirl's Rebirth: Taylor Swift’s shift from introspection to optimistic confidence

Cambridge University Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Insights into the hidden histories and deeper meanings of Taylor Swift’s latest album are published in a special roundtable of the journal Public Humanities, published by Cambridge University Press.

Journal: Public Humanities

Subnational income inequality: Regional successes may hold key to addressing widening gap globally

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study visualizes three decades of income inequality data, the most comprehensive worldwide mapping to be done at a subnational level. The results confirm worsening income inequality for areas with over 3.6 billion inhabitants but also reveals hidden ‘bright spots’ where policy may be closing the gap.

Journal: Nature Sustainability

Global measures consistently underestimate food insecurity; one in five who suffer from hunger may go uncounted

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

International humanitarian aid organizations rely on analyses from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system, a global partnership that monitors and classifies the severity of food insecurity to help target assistance where and when it is most needed. Howwever, a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators, published in Nature Foods, finds that global food insecurity analyses systematically underestimate hunger.

Journal: Nature Food

Hidden patterns of isolation and segregation found in all American cities

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A comprehensive analysis of 383 U.S. cities reveals a striking pattern: most have rings of isolation in suburban areas and segregated pockets of near the urban core, that are shaped by race, wealth, and proximity to downtown, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

Journal: Nature Cities