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Lessons Learned // Creating an Interdisciplinary Team and Using a Nexus Approach to Address a Resource Hotspot
By: Rabi H.Mohtar, Bassel Daher. This paper reflects on the process of creating interdisciplinary teams and presents an overview of the questions and…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
CGIAR // River Deltas: Scaling up Community-Driven Approaches to Sustainable Intensification
The residents of the Ganges and Mekong River deltas face serious challenges from rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion, pollution from upstream…
Resource Management for Food Security // What Is Food-water and Why Do We not Account for It?
By Martin Keulertz and Tony Allan. With 92 percent of the water used by society for food-water, the behavior of consumers determines the demand for…
Energy Production // The Nexus of Energy and Water Quality
By Erika Weinthal, Avner Vengosh and Kate Neville. While the literature on the water-energy nexus tends to focus on scarcity and security, scientific…
Multi-Stakeholder Development of a Serious Game to Explore the Water-Energy-Food-Land-Climate Nexus // The SIM4NEXUS Approach
Water, energy, food, land and climate form a tightly-connected nexus in which actions on one sector impact other sectors, creating feedbacks and…
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