The PIRE-UConn Food and Water Security project is a collaborative and interdisciplinary project carefully crafted to answer the following question:

How do relationships between scientists, farmers, water managers, and authorities influence the production, dissemination, and outcome of new scientific knowledge? This project establishes an international research and education partnership to promote a political-institutional model of science that links sociological and engineering methods in a people-centered approach to the human-climate-water-agriculture-energy nexus in the Blue Nile basin (BNB), Ethiopia.

Project Goals:

• Improve seasonal hydrologic and crop yield forecasts at scales relevant to farmers and water managers; 
• Identify and reduce barriers to effective forecast dissemination and uptake;
• Train a new generation of global experts who recognize the political-institutional and climate-ecological dimensions of complex food-energy-water problems.