Agriculture & Ecosystems Blog // Land grabbing: Feeding the world or the corporate bottom line?
With food prices on the rise again, World Food Day this week should attract more attention than usual. Food security is back on the political agenda.…
Your Formula Blog // Chemistry and the Future of Food and Water
Chemistry can enable the development of technologies such as new drought-resistant crops and seeds, in addition to fertilizers that use less water in…
EU Neighbourhood Info Centre // Agriculture cooperation in pictures: a key priority ahead of European Development Days
Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security and Resilience is one of the three main themes of discussion at the European Development Days this year. The…
Global Hunger Index 2012 // Ensuring Sustainable Food Security under Land, Water, and Energy Stresses
Hunger is inextricably linked to growing pressure on land, water, and energy resources. Recent events–drought, large-scale land investments, high…
Publication // Water & Energy Nexus: Coordinated Federal Approach Needed to Better Manage Energy and Water Tradeoffs
Water and energy are inextricably linked and mutually dependent, with each affecting the other's availability. Since 2009, GAO has issued five…
Publication // Water Services Management and Governance: Lessons for a Sustainable Future
The book focuses on water services (water supply, wastewater services) and deals with connections between water resources and services and water…
Publication // Making Space for the River: Governance experiences with multifunctional river flood management in the US and Europe
This book examines recent developments in river (flood) management from the viewpoint of Making Space for the River and the resulting challenges for…
Publication // Water and Energy - Threats and Opportunities
This book creates an awareness of the important couplings between water and energy. It shows how energy is used in all the various water cycle…
The Guardian // Food Scarcity: The Timebomb Setting Nation against Nation
As the UN and Oxfam warn of the dangers ahead, expert analyst Lester Brown says time to solve the problem is running out.
Oxfam Report // "Our Land, Our Lives": Time out on the global land rush
Land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people, equivalent to the number of…
Bridging the gap between water and economics
"Just how important is the nexus between water and the economy?" What was most inspiring about it was not so much that the event nailed the…
Map // The Food Security Risk Index Map
The index has been developed by the risk analysis company Maplecroft for governments, NGOs and business to use as a barometer to identify those…
Publication // Food Energy Water: The Foundation Systems of Modern Society
By Arthur Jackson - Why does our society or any society function as it does? Many of the activities were established by social systems created in the…
Research // Securing the Future of India's "Water, energy and food"
This paper provides an initial, formal analysis for the design of an Indian food procurement system that considers climate driven variations in…
Mode Shift - Keith Schneider's Blog // Contest Between Water and Energy Becoming Big Story
Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist, yesterday described the confrontation between population growth and water in China, arguing that a nation…