Post date: Sep 18, 2014 8:39:36 AM
Tom Evans (Indiana U. - Geography), Beth Plale (Indiana U. - Informatics), Shahzeen Attari (Indiana U. - SPEA), Kelly Caylor (Princeton U. - Civil and Env. Engineering) and Justin Sheffield (Princeton U. - Civil and Env. Engineering) received funding from the National Science Foundation for a five-year project titled "Impacts of Agricultural Decision Making and Adaptive Management on Food Security in Africa”. This project is funded through the Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) cross-directorate competition and will focus on advanced sensor data collection to provide new insight into farmer intra-season decision-making and adaptive capacity in Kenya and Zambia.
Award title: NSF - WSC-Category 2 Collaborative: Impacts of Agricultural Decision Making and Adaptive Management on Food Security in Africa
Project Title: Impacts of Agricultural Decision Making and Adaptive Management on Food Security in Africa
Contributors: Tom Evans (Indiana U. - Geography), Beth Plale (Indiana U. - Informatics), Shahzeen Attari (Indiana U. - SPEA), Kelly Caylor (Princeton U. - Civil and Env. Engineering) and Justin Sheffield (Princeton U. - Civil and Env. Engineering)
Brief Description: This project will focus on advanced sensor data collection to provide new insight into farmer intra-season decision-making and adaptive capacity in Kenya and Zambia.