Research Project // Promoting Urban Food, Energy and Water Resource Resilience via the Regional Food System
Urban areas are major consumers of food, energy, and water (FEW). While the water and energy generally originate within an immediate geographic…
Rivers Basins // Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus in Large Asian River Basins
Ed. by Marko Keskinen, Shokhrukh Jalilov and Olli Varis. This book looks at the water-energy-food security nexus in the context of large Asian river…
BBC // Food trade drains global water sources at 'alarming' rates
By Matt McGrath. The global market for foodstuffs is depleting water sources in many parts of the world quicker than they can naturally be refilled.…
Project // "Projekt NeXus of Water, Food and Energy" at TU Munich
Project target is to develop an English Master’s degree program in the NeXus field at the TU München. With contacts and through joint Bachelor- and…
Water-Energy Nexus // Infographic: How energy and water are intrinsically linked
By GE Look ahead. It takes water to produce energy. Renewable energy sources like solar or wind are the most water efficient ways to produce…
Video Lecture // The "perfect storm revisited": food, energy and water security in the context of climate change
Some five years ago Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, raised the concept of "The Perfect Storm" in which the issues of…
Presentation // Solar irrigation in the MENA region
By International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Presented by IWMI’s Alvar Closas at the IWMI/WLE led session on "Solar irrigation in the MENA…
Eco-Business // Where has all the water gone?
As Asia struggles to meet the increasing water demands of a growing, urbanising population, the depletion of the continent's underground freshwater…
CEE Seminar // Advancing Food-Energy-Water Sustainability through Critical Zone Science
Nexus Seminar with Praveen Kumar. Intensively managed landscapes in the glaciated mid-western regions present some of the most complex challenges…
Waste Water // How recycled water could revolutionise sustainable development
By Tamara Avellán. By 2025, absolute water scarcity will be a daily reality for an estimated 1.8 billion people. In a world where vital resources are…
(Re-)Connect the Nexus // Using mobile technologies to explore the food-water-energy nexus
By Peter Kraftl, Sophie Hadfield-Hill, John Horton and Ben Coles. Interdisciplinary methodologies: Across scales and cultures workshop, School of…
Youth & Nexus Project // (Re)Connect the Nexus (Brazil)
This ESRC and FAPESP funded research project aims to examine young people's (aged 10-24) understandings, experiences and participation in the…
Video Competition // Food-Water-Energy videos by young people
The (Re)Connect the Nexus research team are pleased to announce that online voting has opened for the Food-Water-Energy Challenge video competition.…
Forbes // For Rising Demand Of Energy, Water And Food, Let Markets Work
By Whitney MacMillan. Commodity markets work better than any other approach encountered—better than the most well-intentioned efforts of government,…
Nexus Capacity Building // CapNex Project Kick-off at Makerere University
The kick-off meeting of the APPEAR-funded academic partnership project CapNex took place at the board room of the School of Food Technology,…