Biofuels/Bioenergy
Research Article // Prospects for Rooftop Farming System Dynamics: An Action to Stimulate Water-Energy-Food Nexus Synergies toward Green Cities of Tomorrow
By Angela Huang and Fi-John Chang. This study contributes to urban planning by exploring in-depth the practicability and worthiness of urban rooftop…
Efficiency Type Index // Analysis of the current World Biofuel Production under a Water–Food–Energy Nexus Perspective
By Emanuele Moioli, Federico Salvati, Marco Chiesa, Rosa T. Siecha, Flavio Manenti, Francesco Laio, Maria Cristina Rulli. This paper assesses the…
Research Article // Biotechnological Applications of Mushrooms under the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Crucial Aspects and Prospects from Farm to Pharmacy
By Xhensila Llanaj and colleagues. Mushrooms have always been an important source of food, with high nutritional value and medicinal attributes. With…
Report // UN-Water analytical brief - Water-use efficiency
Published by UN Water. Systems of water use are multi-purpose and multi-functional so that the often-complex cascade of use, consumption and re-use…
Biofuels // Some Insights in the Effect of Growing Bio-energy Demand on Global Food Security and Natural Resources
By Alexander Müller, Josef Schmidhuber, Jippe Hoogeveen and Pasquale Steduto. Growing crops for biofuels is often criticized because of its direct…
Report // CACIP review issue 1: July - September 2021: Sustainable energy and green recovery
The Central Asian Climate Information Platform (CACIP) collects, structures and visualises public-domain climate and climate-relevant data and…
Pricing // Rising Energy Prices and the Economics of Water in Agriculture
By David Zilberman, Thomas Sproul, Deepak Rajagopal, Steven Sexton and Petra Hellegers. This article looks at how rising energy prices will alter…
Biofuels and Implications for Agricultural Water Use // Blue Impacts of Green Energy
By Charlotte de Fraiture, Mark Giordano and Yongsong Liao. This paper explores the land and water implications of increased biofuel production…
Pro-poor // Implications of India's Biofuel Policies for Food, Water and the Poor
By Deepak Rajagopal. Increasing consensus about the end of cheap oil, the consequences of global warming and the need for rural development are…
Research Article // Estimating the Water and Carbon Footprints of Growing Avocados in the Munich Metropolitan Region Using Waste Heat as a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Potential
By Lukas Becker and Daphne Gondhalekar. This research aimed to identify the possibility of growing subtropical or tropical fruits, here especially…
Research article // Irrigation of biomass plantations may globally increase water stress more than climate change
By Fabian Stenzel, Peter Greve, Wolfgang Lucht, Sylvia Tramberend, Yoshihide Wada and Dieter Gerten. To corroborate findings from one earlier…