Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: NILE-NEXUS: Opportunities for a sustainable food-energy-water future in the Blue Nile Mountains of Ethiopia

该奖项为参与一个由六国倡议通过贝尔蒙论坛进行全球变化研究的竞争性项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙论坛是一个由全球主要和新兴的全球环境变化研究资助者S组成的团体。其目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速开展最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴组织都为本国的研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这种办法有助于有效地利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。该项目还得到了美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室全球风险基金的支持。这六个伙伴组织在“合作研究行动”中共同努力，为利用强有力的跨学科方法研究山区环境和相关社会变化的研究项目提供支持。该奖项支持美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴联盟中开展合作，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户(例如，政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业)聚集在一起。这项研究将确定解决快速变化的埃塞俄比亚青尼罗山新出现的粮食-能源-水压力的备选方案。该项目将让地方、地区和国家层面的利益相关者参与，以定义系统组件和动态，确定有利的适应战略，并在外部强迫和当地驱动的变化下制定可能和可能的未来情景。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a six-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner organization provides funding for researchers from their country to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This project is also supported by the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering Global Venture Fund. Working together in a Collaborative Research Action, the six partner organizations have provided support for research projects that utilize a strong inter- and trans-disciplinary approach to examine environmental and related societal change in mountain regions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in a consortium of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that brings together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). This research will identify options to address emerging food-energy-water pressures in the rapidly changing Ethiopian Blue Nile Mountains. This project will engage stakeholders at local, regional, and national level to define system components and dynamics, identify favored adaptation strategies, and develop scenarios of probable and of possible futures under externally forced and locally driven change.