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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…
Energy-Water Nexus: The Water Sector’s Energy Use
By US Congressional Research Service. This report provides background on energy for facilities that treat and deliver water to end users and also…
Modelling // A Quantitative Assessment Framework for Water, Energy and Food Nexus
By Ali Karnib. This paper presents a quantitative assessment framework of the Water, Energy and Food (W-E-F) nexus, the Q-Nexus Model. The proposed…
Walking the Nexus Talk // Assessing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Context of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative
By Alessandro Flammini, Manas Puri, Lucie Pluschke and Olivier Dubois. This report proposes a way to carry out a water-energy-food nexus assessment…
White Book // Advancing a Nexus Approach to the sustainable management of water, soil and waste : reference material for the nexus conference 2015
Ed. by Stephan Hülsmann and Reza Ardakanian. Reference material for the Dresden Nexus Conference 2015: Global Change, SDGs, Nexus Approach.
Risk // The Critical Role of Risk in Setting Directions for Water, Food and Energy Policy and Research
By Louise Gallagher, James Dalton et al. The sustainable development goals (SDGs) challenge markets, regulators and practitioners to achieve multiple…
Research Brief Collection // The Water-Energy-Land-Climate Nexus (Project Summary)
From Payment for Ecosystem services to Transboundary River Basin Organisations: The interdependencies in the use of resources and the safe provision…
Research Brief // Cooperative Agreements between the Water and the Agricultural Sector
By Carmen Richerzhagen and Waltina Scheumann. The agricultural and drinking water sectors are closely interconnected. By increasing production…
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