Urban Nexus // Demonstrating the Urban NEXUS Approach to Link Water, Energy and Food Resources in Schools in Tanzania
By generating cross-institutional collaboration for infrastructure systems and services at schools in the Kinondoni District, Dar es Salaam, the…
Urban Nexus // A Scale Perspective on the ‘Urban Nexus’: The Integration of Different Scales of Infrastructure System
By Liz Varga. Held at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus Workshop, 12-13 May 2016. Infrastructure systems have unique design characteristics that often…
Urban Nexus // Unpacking and Re-assembling the Urban Nexus: A Socio-technical Perspective on Urban Infrastructures
By Tim Moss. Held at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus Workshop, 12-13 May 2016. Tim Moss spoke on the aspirations and critical questions of nexus…
Urban Nexus // Sustainable and Healthy Food – Views from the City of Brighton and Hove
By Emily O’Brien. Held at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus Workshop, 12-13 May 2016. The author looks at key issues and challenges associated with…
Urban Nexus // The Urban Nexuses of Social Injustice
By Dunu Roy. Held at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus Workshop, 12-13 May 2016. The present nexus of resource use is clearly unsustainable and unjust.…
Urban Nexus // Stairways to Heaven: The Urban Nexus in Lima
By Adriana Allen. Held at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus Workshop, 12-13 May 2016. In the informal settlements on the edges of cities like Lima, a…
Here Comes the Sun // Solar Technology for Agriculture
By Mia Signs. Solar energy technology is not new and has been used in a wide variety of ways, from providing energy through microgrids in remote…
Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue // Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus and SDGs Implementation
On Thursday, March 22, a coalition of stakeholders met in a special session to engage in dialogue around key topics related to the water-energy food…
Nexus in the Asia-Pacific Region // Special Issue of "Journal of Hydrology - Regional Studies"
Edited by Peter W. Swarzenski, Jason J. Gurdak, Aiko Endo, Makoto Taniguchi. Water, energy, and food are among the most important and fundamental…
Nexus in Asia // Introduction: Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Asia-Pacific Region
By Makoto Taniguchia, Aiko Endo, Jason J. Gurdak and Peter Swarzenski. While many papers claim the fundamental importance of the Nexus approach, few…
Nexus in Asia // Water, Energy, and Food Security in the Asia Pacific Region
By Makoto Taniguchi, Naoki Masuhara and Kimberly Burnett. In this article, security measures of three resources; water, energy and food are analyzed…
CapNex // Capacity Building on the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus through Research and Training in Kenya and Uganda
In this project, an interdisciplinary (agronomy; crop production; pest management; development studies; hydrology; socio-hydrology; soil science;…
Solar-powered Pump Irrigation and India's Groundwater Economy // A Preliminary Discussion of Opportunities and Threats
By Tushaar Shah and A. Kishore. Falling cost of photo voltaic (PV) cells is making solar irrigation pumps a reality in India. It is only a matter of…
Video // Solar-powered Irrigation Pumps Hold Promise to Boost Productivity for Poor Indian Farmers
By IFPRI. Solar panels provide a cleaner, cheaper energy source for pumping groundwater than traditional diesel-based pumps, but implementing them…
SPIS // Solar-powered Irrigation Can Boost Rural Development, But Also Poses Risks
By Avinash Kishore. Irrigation is one of the most effective means for boosting agricultural production, but powering the withdrawal of groundwater…