A series of unprecedented droughts in the already impoverished areas of east Africa, chiefly northern Kenya and eastern Ethiopia, have affected millions of people in the region in the past several years, including many refugees from neighboring Somalia.
Although crop failures and resulting food shortages cause severe malnourishment in these populations, the lack of safe drinking water for both… Read more
$3 million grant to support first detailed map of the nation’s food, energy and water systems
Associate professor Benjamin Ruddell, who joined the faculty of NAU’s new School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems in the Fall 2016 term, received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support “Mesoscale Data Fusion to Map and Model the U.S. Food, Energy and Water (FEW) System.”
The interdisciplinary research project called “FEWSion,” which builds on… Read more