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Call for Papers // South Asia Water Competition (SAWAC) 2022
This call for papers aims at mobilising and challenging young minds to think about water problems and solutions from national and regional…
News // Joint PHEMAC and NEX-LABS Innovation Week outcomes: strategies and solutions to pave the way towards entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean
From 17 to 20 January 2022, the joint EU-funded NEX-LABS and PHEMAC Innovation Week brought together Euro-Mediterranean researchers, policy makers,…
Article // Creating Food Security in Angola
By Agricultiva& Owini professionals. The Samba Caju farm is empowering the people of Angola to achieve ‘Zero Hunger,’ even while the world and its…
Blog // Stakeholders explore opportunities to finance Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Nexus projects in the Western Balkans
What are the necessary conditions that will pave the way for the implementation of impactful Nexus solutions and investments in the Drin and…
Policy Brief // Sharing societal metabolism insights with European Policymakers: Main messages for policy makers
Blackstock KL, Matthews KB, Waylen KA, Juarez-Bourke A, Miller DG, Wardell-Johnson D, Guimarães-Pereira A, Cadillo-Benalcazar J, Kovacic Z, Renner A,…
Research Article // Integrated assessment of the sustainable water-energy-food nexus in China: Case studies on multi-regional sustainability and multi-sectoral synergy
By Lijie Sun and colleagues. This paper introduced the current status of WEF nexus in China and constructed a comprehensive indicator system for…
Research Article // A systematic approach for assessing water, energy and food security during the COVID‑19 pandemic: case study of Mexico
By Alma Yunuen Raya-Tapia and collegues. In this study, a new WEF Global Index is developed to assess the availability, accessibility and regional…
Niger Basin Nexus Acceleration Programme // Article Series N°1: WEF Nexus Accelerator Bootcamp for Niger Basin start-ups
A Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus Bootcamp took place between 26 June and 2 July, at the 2iE campus in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was…
Research Article // Quantifying the water-energy-food Nexus in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao regions
By Pan Zhan and colleagues. This study quantified the WEF Nexus in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao by constructing an environmentally extended…
News // A youth perspective on tackling Water-Food-Energy Summit challenges
Conclusions and Recommendations of the WEF serious game for the Water, Food, Energy High-Level Summit 2022.
Publication // From dialogues to results: Recommendations for accelerating cross-sectoral SDG 6 implementation
Together with other UN member states, representatives of the UN Major Groups and international organisations, the Federal Ministry for the…
Nexus Blog // UNECE launches methodology to evaluate the sustainability of infrastructure projects and guidelines on Waste-to-Energy projects for the circular economy
As countries all over the world aim at ‘building back better’ from the COVID-19 pandemic, the recently-launched UNECE People-first PPP Evaluation…
Science Forum 2018 Background Paper // Water-Energy-Food Nexus Interactions and Agriculture Research for Development
By Dr. Mathew Kurian. The impact of Agriculture Research for Development (ARD) is key to justifying investments in technologies and management models…
Frexus at Stockholm WWW 2022 // Improving security and climate resilience with participatory processes
This year’s Stockholm World Water Week is centred around the topic of “Seeing the Unseen: The Value of Water”. The Frexus session explored how local…
Research Article // Circularity in the Urban Water-Energy-Nutrients-Food nexus
By M.C.G. Haitsma Mulier and colleagues. During WEF Nexus research at urban farms, two types of ‘food’ were indicated to be relevant for urban…