Conference // "From Nebulous to Nexus: Operationalising the Water, Energy & Food Security Response", Montecasion / South Africa

The third annual SAWEF Forum will take place on July 30th 2013 at the Montecasino Ballroom in Johannesburg. The Forum, initiated in 2011, was co-established by Gleason Publications, a media operating company, and TouchStone Resources, a company engaged in the development of New Energy and New Water resources in the SADC region. After embedding the water-energy-food nexus concept in the discussions, attention will shift to understanding how best to manage the nexus challenges and steer companies and stakeholders through an increasingly resource constrained future. This year's forum will discuss the operationalising of the water, energy & food security response. The SAWEF programme features altogether three plenary sessions: - Plenary session 1 discusses the reinvigoration and consolidation of catchment management agencies, as a solution for water resource management solution; - Plenary session 2 will introduce a new socio-economic model for mining, aiming to bridge the gap between mining and agriculture on the one hand, and mining and communities on the other; - Plenary session 3 will debate the new nuclear building programme, as a part of South Africa's Integrated Resource Plan to use power generation mix of 42 600MW of new capacity by 2030. The preliminary programme can be found under: http://sawef.co.za/programme/ For more information, please visit: http://sawef.co.za/about-the-forum/