UNECE Global Workshop on the Water-Food-Energy Ecosystems Nexus
The global stock-taking workshop on assessments of the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus and response measures in transboundary basins will take…
PhD Scholarship // Mapping the Water-Energy Nexus and Urban Metabolism
Opportunities exist for one or more PhD students to contribute to a set of exciting projects at the School of Chemical Engineering/University of…
COP22 Side Event//The WEF Nexus approach in the MENA region - a road to climate adaptation and mitigation in policy making, science and practical implementation
The side event will discuss good practices and recommendations on how the Water, Energy, Food Security Nexus can benefit activities on adaptation to…
COP22 Side Event//Water-Energy-Food: Research and Innovation to Address the Nexus in the Mediterranean
Land, food, energy, water and climate are interconnected though a complex system (a ‘nexus’), dominated by interdependencies and linkages between…
Foresight // The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Foresight for Research and Innovation in the Context of Climate Change
By Beatriz Mayor Rodríguez, Elena López Gunn, Oiana Hernaez Lizarazu and Ibon Zugasti Gorostidi. This study aims to identify the openings for the EU…
Education // "Perspectivity Challenge" Game
The "Perspectivity Challenge" is an educational group game to raise awareness on a number of sustainability issues, the water-energy-food nexus being…
Conference // The AIChE Food-Water-Energy Nexus Topical Conference
With the global population projected to grow to nearly 10 billion by 2050, the challenges associated with the affordable production, security, and…
Research // Serious Gaming for Water Systems Planning and Management
By Dragan A. Savic, Mark S. Morley and Mehdi Khoury. Water systems planning and management share the same roots with gaming, as they rely on concepts…
Session “Managing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus” at the Regional Dialogue on Extractive Industry Governance and Infrastructure, ECLAC, Santiago, Chile
The governance of natural resources and infrastructure emerge among the fundamental challenges for the implementation of Agenda 2030 in Latin America…
Resilience // Building resilience in the energy-food-water nexus
By Jeremy Wakeford. In an increasingly resource-constrained world, the energy-food-water ‘nexus’ – defined as the interconnections among these three…
Research // Mitigating Risks and Vulnerabilities in the Energy-Food-Water Nexus in Developing Countries
By Jeremy Wakeford, Candice Kelly and Sasha Mentz Lagrange. The report analyses global nexus interconnections (such as the dependence of food systems…
Nexus2020 // Science and Business Collaborate on Setting Nexus Research Agenda
By Caspar Trimmer. A new paper describes the outcomes of the Nexus2020 project, which saw business leaders and scientists come together to identify…
Analysis // The Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus: Analysis of the Project Portfolio and Assessment of Opportunities for Nexus Mainstreaming
This Nexus portfolio analysis developed and applied a systematic methodology and criteria for screening, characterizing and ranking 450 selected GIZ…
Lecture // The Food-Water-Energy Nexus - The Energy Challenge
In his talk Dr Tim Fox will focus on the energy challenge of the nexus. The defining human challenge of the 21st Century is likely to be that of…
AlJazeera // Growing food with seawater and solar power
By Ryan Rifai. World's first mass-scale facility that grows tomatoes without soil, fresh water, or fossil fuels launches in Australia.