Opportunities for a Sustainable Food-Energy-Water Future in the Blue Nile Mountains of Ethiopia
NILE-Nexus
Call
Mountains
Project Website
Principal Investigator
Benjamin Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Partners
Jeremy Foltz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Belay Simane, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Detlef Mueller-Mahn, University of Bonn, Germany
Gianni Gilioli, University of Brescia, Italy
Funders
CNR-DSSTTA (National Research Council), DFG (German Research Foundation), NSF (National Science Foundation)
Project Objective
The core research objective of Nile-Nexus is to identify options to address emerging food-energy-water pressures in the Ethiopian Blue Nile Mountains.
Call Objective
This call aims at fostering research on climate, environmental and related societal change in mountain regions, considering both new measurements, recovery of existing data, and the development and use of integrated modelling strategies by adopting a strong trans- and inter-disciplinary approach.