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

该奖项为参与由贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）发起的全球变化研究六国倡议竞争性选拔项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个世界性的团体。全球环境变化研究的主要和新兴资助者。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速进行最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴组织为来自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。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。本项目也得到了美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室全球创业基金的支持。六个伙伴组织在一项合作研究行动中共同努力，为利用强有力的跨学科和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。该奖项为美国研究人员在一个由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中合作提供支持，该联盟将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户（如决策者、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脉中出现的食物-能源-水压力的选择。该项目将使地方、区域和国家层面的利益相关者参与进来，确定系统组成部分和动态，确定有利的适应策略，并在外部强迫和地方驱动的变化下制定可能的和可能的未来情景。

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.