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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…
FAO // How Access to Energy Can Influence Food Losses
By Manas Puri. The report begins by reviewing the evidence to date focussing on the magnitude and geographical distribution of food losses. In the…
Research // Leveraging agroecology for solutions in food, energy, and water
By Marcia DeLonge and Andrea Basche. Global agriculture is facing growing challenges at the nexus of interconnected food, energy and water systems,…
Research // Improvement of the Water-Energy Nexus and the Environmental Performance of Water Supply Systems Using Smart ICT Solutions
By Jorge Helmbrecht, Matthias Maier, Esteban Muñoz Morillo, Dirk Kühlers and Karl Roth. In this paper, an application of an intelligent software…
The energy and water nexus for off-grid communities in the Philippines and Southeast Asia
Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), energy, and agriculture are topics of great importance to every rural community. In Southeast Asia, these…
Transboundary Rivers // Fostering Cooperation on Transboundary Waters: Success Stories from SDC’s Transboundary Waters Program
By Annika Kramer, Lukas Rüttinger and Paola Adriázola. The Global Programme Water (GPW) of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)…
Commentary // Water-Energy-Food Nexus Framework for facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue
By Rabi H. Mohtar and Bassel Daher. Present policy making often lacks the necessary mechanisms to incorporate the interlinkages between water, energy…
Conference Paper // The Agriculture-Nutrition-Health Nexus at the Cost of Water Availability in Maize Diverse Genotypes to Ensure Food Security
By Ijaz Rasool Noorka, Taufiqullah, J.S. (Pat) Heslop-Harrison and Trude Schwarzacher. The study is based on the health conservation of most…
River Basin Management // Water for Energy and Food: A System Modelling Approach for Blue Nile River Basin
By Cho Chia Tan, Tohid Erfani and Rasool Erfani. The world is facing a more water constrained future as a result of urbanisation, population growth,…
Tools/Documentation // Developing the Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Security Index Tools - Toward a Global Standardized, Quantitative, and Transparent Resource Assessment
More than 2 billion people around the world, especially in developing countries, do not have access to high-quality services related to food, water,…
Tools // Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Index
The interactive Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Index enables the measurement of the current state of food, water, and energy security and allows for…
Food-Energy-Water Nexus // Quantifying Embodied Energy and GHG Emissions from Irrigation through Virtual Water Transfers in Food Trade
By Nemi Vora, Apurva Shah, Melissa M. Bilec and Vikas Khanna. We present a network model of interstate food trade and report comprehensive estimates…
Assessment // Global Linkages Among Energy, Food and Water: An Economic Assessment
By Claudia Ringler, Dirk Willenbockel et al. This paper uses global economic analysis tools to assess the impacts of long-term changes in fossil fuel…
Governance // Key Issues of Interdisciplinary NEXUS Governance Analyses: Lessons Learned from Research on Integrated Water Resources Management
By Nina Hagemann and Sabrina Kirschke. Governance has become a cornerstone in addressing complex linkages between multiple resources such as water,…
Book // Storage and Scarcity: New Practices for Food, Energy and Water
By Giorgio Osti. In an era of abundance, at least part of humanity has stopped thinking about the future provision of basic vital resources such…
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