MENA // The Middle East Water-Energy Food Nexus

The Middle East is faced with a set of complex interrelated problems related to the water, energy, and food sectors. Understanding the dynamics and linkages between these three sectors is needed to understand potential opportunities, trade-offs, and synergies and to develop integrated solutions to the growing demand for resources. The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus approach is not without criticism, but such multi-disciplinary solutions are increasingly considered the best strategy to deal with issues of water, energy and food security. These dynamics were the focus of an expert roundtable to explore government, civil society, and private sector policy solutions to these dynamic challenges, and the outcomes of that conversation were compiled in a recent report.

Speakers

• Dr. Thomas L. Crisman
  Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida

• Dr. Afreen Siddiqi
  Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moderator

• David Dumke
  Director, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Program for Strategic Research and Studies, University of Central Florida

Introduction

• Michael Carroll, Executive Director, Hollings Center

Where and when

16 Nov 2016
12-1:30 pm OpenGov Hub
1110 Vermont Avenue Northwest
#500
Washington, DC 20005

About the Hollings Center for International Dialogue

The Hollings Center for International Dialogue is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to fostering dialogue between the United States and countries with predominantly Muslim populations in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Eurasia and Europe.