South Asia // Modeling the Agricultural Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Indus River Basin of Pakistan
By Y. C. Ethan Yang, Claudia Ringler, Casey Brown and Alam Hossain Mondal. Nexus thinking is critical to jointly address growing water, energy, and food security challenges. This paper evaluates the water, energy, and food nexus (WEFN) in the Indus River of Pakistan using the Indus Basin Model Revised—Multi Year, a hydro-agro-economic model extended with an agricultural energy use module.