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Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series 2nd Round // Disaster resilience and risk in the context on Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Insights from Africa

The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is a useful framework for addressing complex transdisciplinary natural resource and environmental challenges in integrated, innovative ways. This webinar series explores using and operationalizing WEF nexus approaches for finding solutions to these challenges. The series focuses on examples and solutions by linking and using WEF nexus approaches to timely interventions, technologies and issues of importance, especially in the context of COVID-19 and climate change. This webinar series is organized by FAO & WEF Nexus in Africa Initiative, WE4F, GIZ Nexus Dialogues, and SEI.

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About the WEF Nexus Webinar Series

September - December 2021

The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is a useful framework for addressing complex transdisciplinary natural resource and environmental challenges in integrated, innovative ways. This webinar series explores using and operationalizing WEF nexus approaches for finding solutions to these challenges. The series focuses on examples and solutions by linking and using WEF nexus approaches to timely interventions, technologies and issues of importance, especially in the context of COVID-19 and climate change. This webinar series is organized by FAO & WEF Nexus in Africa Initiative, WE4F, GIZ Nexus Dialogues, and SEI.

About session 1: Disaster resilience and risk in the context on Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Insights from Africa

Tuesday, September 14, 2021 | 13:30 – 15:00

This is the first session of the 2nd Round of Webinar on Water-Energy-Food Nexus, focusing on NEXUS SOLUTIONS.

This session #1 covers the disasters such as droughts, floods, fires, pests and diseases expose millions of people in Africa to food, water, and energy insecurity that have been exacerbated by climate change. Disasters create huge humanitarian needs with impacts on household livelihoods and hamper long term investments. All this is intensified by inadequate information to enable risk-informed decisions. This seminar discusses different approaches across Africa to prevent, mitigate and address disaster risk and resilience, specifically through a WEF Nexus lens with solutions in mind.

Registration

You can register here for the event on zoom.

Further information

For more information about the webinar series, see here.

For additional information about the webinar series organizations, see the websites of the WEF Nexus in Africa Initiative, WE4F, the GIZ Nexus Dialogues, and SEI.