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Grand Challenges: Global FEWture Alliance

Transformative Food-Energy-Water Solutions to Ensure Community Resilience in a Changing Climate

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Global FEWture Alliance

Grant Type: Institutional Grant
Topics: Climate Change; Food, Energy, and Water; Global Health; Sustainable Development
Colleges Represented: SPHL, ARCH, AGNR, CMNS

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News

News: Check out the Global FEWture Alliance team website for the latest news

Grand Challenges: Global FEWture Alliance
March 11, 2026

UMD Research Links Communication With Farmers’ Support for Solar Power 
September 19, 2025

AquaSafe: ‘Doing Good’ in Tanzania
March 27, 2025

In Tanzania, An On-the-Ground View of Farming Struggles, Ambitions
January 31, 2025

Global STEWARDS Program Announces 2025 Cohort
December 9, 2024

Global FEWture Alliance Hosts the Mbeya University of Science and Technology (MUST) Management Team for UMD Visit
September 17, 2024

To Heal the Anacostia, Citizen Scientists Wade Into Troubled Waters
September 9, 2024

Safeguarding Our Salads From the Roots Up
August 29, 2024

Students Deliver Global FEWture Alliance Summer Internship Presentations
August 14, 2024

President Pines meets Farmer Chippy and Dr. Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein in the AgriHood
May 1, 2024

Murray Wins Grant for Global Public Health Classrooms Curriculum on Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems
March 28, 2024

On Nepal Research Trip, Graduate Students Strive for Solutions for Food, Energy, Water  
January 26, 2024

Short Film: The Nepal FEWture Team on Climate and Diarrheal Disease 
November 20, 2023

UMD Researchers Help Hyattsville’s Food Forests Look to the ‘FEWture’ 
September 22, 2023

New UMD Alliance to Develop Sustainable Solutions for Food, Energy, Water Systems 
March 13, 2023

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Events

Check out the Global FEWture Alliance team website for the latest events

June 2026
Third Annual Global FEWture Alliance Symposium 
Nepal
For more information, visit: https://globalfewture.umd.edu/events/annual-symposium

Summary

Climate change, population growth, and urbanization are crippling global food, energy, and water (FEW) systems and harming public health, with low-income communities and people of color bearing the heaviest burdens. There are 1.3 billion people worldwide who are food insecure, 2 billion people who lack access to safe drinking water, and 770 million people who lack access to electricity. These challenges will only grow worse over the next 30 years. By 2050, global food production will need to increase by 70%, 5 billion people will live in water-scarce areas, causing global water demand to increase by 55%, and global energy demand will increase by 50%.

To date, solutions addressing these pervasive challenges have often been siloed and inequitable. Initiatives tend to focus on food production, access to water or access to energy technologies, but often fail to take into consideration all three vital resources along with the required capacity building and educational programs necessary to sustain interventions.

The Global FEWture Alliance—a UMD-based international alliance—is scaling technology-based solutions, community-driven capacity building, and experiential education focused at the food-energy-water-climate-health nexus. Through this holistic, interdisciplinary, systems-based approach, the Global FEWture Alliance will alleviate food and water insecurity, protect environmental and global public health, and bolster community resilience in a changing climate.

This integrated, multi-sectoral approach will result in solutions, from local to global scales, that address at least 13 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Global FEWture Alliance is advancing all four commitments of the University of Maryland's Strategic Plan: taking on humanity’s grand challenges, investing in people and communities, partnering to advance the common good, and reimagining learning.

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Tackling Grand Challenges: Safeguarding Our Future

Team Members:

Amy Sapkota Headshot PI: Amy Sapkota

MPower Professor, Environmental Health; Chair, Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health; Director, CONSERVE Center of Excellence; and Director of the UMD Global STEWARDS NSF NRT

SPHL Dina Borzekowski headshot Dina Borzekowski

Research Professor, Behavioral and Community Health Director, Global Health Initiative

SPHL Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein headshot Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein

Assistant Professor, Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health

SPHL Rianna Murray headshot Rianna Murray

Assistant Research Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health

SPHL Amir Sapkota headshot Amir Sapkota

Professor and Chair, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

SPHL Leena Malayil headshot Leena Malayil

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health

SPHL Micallef headshot Shirley Micallef

Associate Professor, Food Safety, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture

AGNR Stephanie Lansing headshot Stephanie Lansing

Professor, Environmental Science and Technology

AGNR Gili Marbach-Ad headshot Gili Marbach-Ad

Director, CMNS Teaching & Learning Center, Research Professor

CMNS Xin-Zhong Liang headshot Xin-Zhong Liang

Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science

CMNS Jennifer Cotting headshot Jennifer Cotting

Director, Environmental Finance Center, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

ARCH Allen Davis headshot Allen Davis

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

ENGR Paul Turner headshot Paul Turner

Associate Professor, Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health

SPHL Brian Needleman headshot Brian Needleman

Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Technology

AGNR Heidi Scott headshot Heidi Scott

Communications Director, and Associate Clinical Professor

SPHL/ARHU Catherine Nakalembe headshot Catherine Nakalembe

Assistant Professor, Department of Geographical Sciences

BSOS Suhana Chattopadhyay headshot Suhana Chattopadhyay

Program Manager and Post-doctoral Associate

SPHL Taiwo Alawode headshot Taiwo Alawode

Ph.D Student, Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health

SPHL Ibiyinka Amokeodo headshot Ibiyinka Amokeodo

Ph.D Student, Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health

SPHL

Partners:

Yael Mishael headshot Yael Mishael

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Sustainability, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tomer Malchi headshot Tomer Malchi

Executive Director and Co-Founder, CultivAid

Clive Lipchin headshot Clive Lipchin

Director of the Center for Transboundary Water Management, Arava Institute

Biraj Karmacharya headshot Biraj Karmacharya

Director, Public Health / Community Programs / Global Engagement, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel Hospital

Shree Krishna Dhital headshot Shree Krishna Dhital

Executive Director, Sanskriti Farms & Research Center

Thurka Sangaramoorthy headshot Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Professor, American University and Addis Ababa University

Bim Shrestha headshot Bim Shrestha

Professor, Kathmandu University and Affiliate Professor, University of Washington

Eliezer Mwakalapa Eliezer Mwakalapa

Acting Principal, Lecturer, Researcher, Mbeya University of Science and Technology

Ruby Maka Shrestha headshot Ruby Maka Shrestha

Research Project Lead for Health System, Policy, and Environmental Health, Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital

Tackling Grand Challenges: Food, Energy and Water Access | The Global FEWture Alliance
President Pines meets Farmer Chippy and Dr. Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein in the AgriHood
The Flow of Change - managing diarrheal disease in the face of extreme weather
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UMD Global STEWARDS 2025: Asangwing, Gerry, Rafi, John, Qingyue

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