Ecosystems
Actualités // ARCOS lance un nouveau projet transfrontalier au Rwanda et en RD Congo visant à améliorer le Nexus eau-énergie-alimentation-écosystèmes (WEFE)
L’eau, l’énergie et la nourriture sont essentielles à la vie humaine, mais ces ressources sont soumises à une pression constante due au développement…
Publication // Assessing River Basin Development Given Water‐Energy‐Food‐Environment Interdependencies
By Robel Geressu, Christian Siderius, Julien J. Harou, Japhet Kashaigili, Laetitia Pettinotti and Declan Conway. The authors present an approach…
Project // AWESOME: mAnaging Water, Ecosystems and food across sectors and Scales in the sOuth Mediterranean
With Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) and funds from the EU, AWESOME aims to develop a decision-analytic…
Publication // The Role of Green Infrastructure in Water, Energy and Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges
By Raúl Muñoz Castillo and Thomas L. Crisman. The current paper reviews green infrastructure approaches to the water, energy and agriculture nexus in…
Research Article // Quantifying Sustainable Land-Water-Energy-Food Nexus: The Case of Sustainable Livelihoods in an East African Rift Valley
By Zinabu Wolde and colleagues. This study investigates the link between sustainable LWEF Nexus and livelihoods. Qualitative data were generated…
Nexus Blog // Des risques aux retours: Le Nexus à la Semaine mondiale de l'eau 2021
Comment le financement des projets intégrés des ressources naturelles peut-il être optimisé ? Et l'approche Nexus peut-elle faciliter l'accès aux…
The Hindu // "Drain it, lose it," says new wetlands economics report
A major report that will help countries understand the economic value of inland wetlands, which cover a vast area of the earth's land surface and…
Niger Basin Nexus Acceleration Programme // Article Series No. 7: Agro-Eco Services, towards an increasingly competitive offer
Following its inclusion to the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Security Nexus Start-up Acceleration Programme (EESA on its French acronym), Agro-Eco Services…
Research Article // Water–Energy–Food Nexus and Life Cycle Thinking: A New Approach to Environmental and Nutritional Assessment of Potato Chips
By Fernández-Ríos Ana and colleagues. This study addresses the water–energy–food Nexus issues by analyzing the environmental impacts and nutritional…
Contest // PRIMA WEFE NEXUS Award
The Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) has released a call for applicants for the WEFE NEXUS award. This award…
Publication // Payment for Ecosystem Services and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Securing Resource Flows for the Auffluent?
by Jean Carlo Rodríguez-de-Francisco, Bibiana Duarte-Abadía and Rutgerd Boelens. In this paper, the authors evaluate a Payment for Ecosystem Services…
Frexus Project // Workshop for the mapping of animal corridors in the municipality of Bellen
In the municipality of Bellen in Mali, old animal crossing corridors are no longer usable due to the uncontrolled expansion of cultivation plots. A…
Policy Brief // Working with the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus
This policy note provides a summary and perspectives of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus for climate-resilient sustainable development.…
Project // NEXOGENESIS - Streamlining Water Related Policies
NEXOGENESIS is a collaborative project financed under the European H2020 programme. With 20 partners from Europe and South Africa the focus is set on…
Research Article // Nature-based solutions addressing the water-energy-food nexus: Review of theoretical concepts and urban case studies
NBS can make the W-E-F nexus synergetic and circular if smartly embedded into urban systems. This is necessary for environmental, political (e.g., EU…