Special Issue // The Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus in Global Drylands
Special issue of "International Journal of Water Resources Development". The contributions to this special issue were peer-reviewed presentations to the International “Conference on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Drylands,” held in Rabat, Morocco (the seat of the OCP Policy Center) 11-13 June 2014. Thanks to the generous funding of the OCP Policy Center, 30 researchers from across the Arab world, Europe and Africa discussed the nexus in a highly engaging format.
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The Water-Food-Energy Nexus // An Introduction to Nexus Concepts and Some Conceptual and Operational Problems
By Tony Allan, Martin Keulertz and Eckart Woertz. Introduction to the special issue of International Journal of Water Resources Development, "The Water-Food-Energy-Climate…
Financial Challenges of the Nexus // Pathways for Investment in Water, Energy and Agriculture in the Arab World
By Martin Keulertz and Eckart Woertz. The Water–Energy–Food (WEF) nexus is a development challenge in the Arab world, particularly in the ‘core nexus countries’ with low to…
MENA // Food-Water Security and Virtual Water Trade in the Middle East and North Africa
By Marta Antonelli and Stefania Tamea. The purpose of this study is to analyze the political economy of food-water security in the water-scarce Middle East and North Africa…
Assessment // Rapid Assessment of the Water-Energy-Food-Climate Nexus in Six Selected Basins of North Africa and West Asia undergoing Transitions and Scarcity Threats
By Caroline King and Hadi Jaafar. Existing strategies for management of water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa negotiate a complex system of trade-offs between…
The Nexus as a Political Commodity // Agricultural Development, Water Policy and Elite Rivalry in Egypt
By Harry Verhoeven. Thinking of the interconnections between water, food, energy and climate is nothing new in the Nile Basin; it has long been anchored in political…
Nexus meets Crisis // A Review of Conflict, Natural Resources and the Humanitarian Response in Darfur with Reference to the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
By Brendan Bromwich. Darfur has been widely used as a case study by both those arguing for causality between environmental scarcity and war and those disputing it. This…
To What End? // Drip Irrigation and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Morocco
By Guy Jobbins, Jack Kalpakian, Abdelouahid Chriyaa, Ahmed Legrouri and El Houssine El Mzouri. This article draws on three case studies of drip irrigation adoption in Morocco…
Water for Food // Virtual-water Content of Agricultural Production and Food Trade Balance of Tunisia
By Jamel Chahed, Mustapha Besbes and Abdelkader Hamdane. This article is devoted to the assessment of Tunisian agricultural production and food trade balance…
Energy Cost of Irrigation Policy in Morocco // A Social Accounting Matrix Assessment
By Mohammed Rachid Doukkali and Caroline Lejars. The objective of this study was to assess the consumption and the multiplier effect of the use of energy and irrigation water…
Towards a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Policy // Realizing the Blue and Green Virtual Water of Agriculture in Jordan
By Samer Talozi, Yasmeen Al Sakaji and Amelia Altz-Stamm. Virtual water is an important addendum to how we view a country's water resources. This study examines the virtual…
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Published
April 2015
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International Journal of Water Resources Development, Volume 31, 2015 - Issue 3