Food and Agriculture
LATAM4WEF Innovations Programme // Article Series No. 3: Innovative solutions for water, energy, and food security challenges: The 5 winners of the LATAM4WEF Innovation Lab
Recognizing the need for innovative solutions to WEF Nexus challenges, the LATAM4WEF Innovation Lab brought together some of the brightest minds from…
Research Article // Watermelons in the Desert in Morocco: Struggles Around a Groundwater Commons-in-the-Making
By Lisa Bossenbroek and colleagues. Groundwater is essential for early-season agriculture in many arid regions. In such regions, however,…
Nexus Regional Dialogues Programme LAC// Regional Water Dialogues 2023 of Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards the UN 2023 Water Conference
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) organised the third edition of the 2023 Regional Water Dialogues.…
Programa Diálogo Regional Nexo para América Latina y el Caribe// Diálogos Regionales del Agua en América Latina y El Caribe 2023: Hacia la Conferencia del Agua de Naciones Unidas
La Comisión Económica de las Naciones Unidas para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) organizó la tercera edición de los Diálogos Regionales del Agua…
Nexus Regional Dialogue Central Asia // Nexus approach is widely promoted in Turkmenistan
On February 7 and 10, 33 lecturers and professors from the Academy of Civil Service under the President of Turkmenistan (Ashgabat) and the Turkmen…
Research Article // The combined effect of water management and environmental control on the planting of two varieties of garden egg in a partially shaded greenhouse: an energy and yield indicator analysis
By Ike Okosa and colleagues. The objective of this study is to investigate the performance of partially shaded solar greenhouse and water management…
Research Article // Review of Publications on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Climate Change Adaptation Using Bibliometric Analysis: A Case Study of Africa
By Omolola M. Adeola and colleagues. This study concentrated on reviewing progress made in understanding the relationship between the…
Research Article// A framework for sustainable and inclusive irrigation development in Western Nepal
By Anton Urfels and colleagues. Growing water risks threaten to severely derail Nepal’s agricultural development ambitions, requiring substantial…
Research Article // The Persistent Appeal of the California Agricultural Dream in North Africa
By Marcel Kupel and colleagues. This paper shows how 'California' as a social imaginary influenced North Africa’s irrigation policies. It traces the…
Research Article // Groundwater market in water-abundant regions: determinants of farmers’ decision to buy irrigation water in Assam in North-East India
By Jitu Tamuli and colleagues. This study was carried out to unearth the factors influencing the water-buying decisions of farmers in the groundwater…
Call for Applications // Lebanon: NEX-LABS Commercialization Prize for researchers and university students
Applications are open for researchers and university students from Lebanon to apply to the NEX-LABS Commercialization Support Vouchers of 5,000 euros…
Working Paper // The link between small reservoir infrastructure and farmer-led irrigation: Case Study of Ogun Watershed in Southwestern Nigeria
By Adebayo Olubukola Oke and colleagues. Small water infrastructure in Nigeria needs to be utilized more efficiently. There are over 900 small…
Niger Basin Nexus Acceleration Programme // Article Series No. 5: Acceleration of the winning startups of the WEF Nexus bootcamp: Clean Energy Services
Clean Energy Services is a young Cameroonian startup whose mission is to develop energy and solar solutions (solar pumps, aquaponics, solar coolers)…
Programme d'accélération Nexus dans le Bassin du Niger // Série d'Article N°5: Accélération des startups lauréates du bootcamp Nexus EESA: Clean Energy Services
Clean Energy Services est une jeune startup de droit camerounais qui s’est donnée pour mission de développer des solutions énergétiques et solaires…
Research Article // WEF Nexus Policy Review of Four Mediterranean Countries
By Davide Bazzana and colleagues. As governments are required to make decisions in order to cope with increasing demands for resources, this paper…