Dr. Bruce Keith attended an international conference on "Building Resilience for Food and
Nutrition Security", organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) during
May 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The purpose of the trip was twofold: (a) to increase
knowledge and understanding of extant environmental stressors in the Nile River Basin based on
water and population dynamics within the region and (b) to develop potential partnerships for
research opportunities in the Nile River Basin. Dr. Keith, who also attended the USIP and
AUSA summit, was invited to present work from his cadet capstone at Addis Ababa and Bahir
Dar Universities in Ethiopia. This work, which is the culmination of a joint effort between West
Point’s Systems Engineering Department and undergraduate Sustainability Development majors
at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, focuses on the projected impact of climate change on
streamflow in the Nile River Basin during the 21st Century. Dr. Bruce Keith and 2LT Jonathan
Lee (Class of 2014) attended the 2014 International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) in
Delft, Netherlands during July, 2014 (see
http://conference.systemdynamics.org/current/upload/tentsched.html) to present this work.