Abstract The Water–Energy–Food (WEF) Nexus framework for holistic sustainable development has spawned independent and academic communities around the globe that utilize the framework in research, implementation, policy development, and technological advancement. These communities, however, are geographically and topically segmented and lack large-scale data basing that clearly catalogs and classifies their work. Recognizing this need, the […]

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to examine the impacts of system-wide crises on key supply sectors such as water, energy and food. These sectors are becoming increasingly interlinked in environmental policy-making and with regard to achieving supply security. There is a pressing need for a systematization of impacts and responses beyond individual disruptions. […]

Abstract The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus has, in the past decade, gained prominence as an approach for assessing integrated resource management. One challenge related to the WEF nexus approach is how to represent and monitor it since a system that includes water-, energy-and food-related parameters is complex. Not only are these resources quantified utilizing different units, […]

Renewable energy sources to support water access and quality in West Africa by Kougias I., Szabó S., Scarlat N., Monforti F., Banja M., Bódis K., Moner-Girona M. Abstract: Mitigating the big challenges of access to clean water, energy and poverty in Africa requires integrated solutions. The analysis of issues related to the water, energy, food […]

This guide provides a series of steps and principles for conducting stakeholder engagement in decision-making around water-energy-food-environment (WEFE) interventions. It involves a five-step process; (a) foresight development needs, (b) determines projects that meet development needs, (c) participatory stakeholder modeling exercise, (d) options assessment, and (e) recommendation report; that can be run alongside multi-criteria assessment and […]

The importance of resilience thinking is increasing with the increase in challenges of the 21st century. A review of past literature suggested that water, energy, and food systems are all linked together and can contribute effectively to these current increasing pressures, which further demanded a need to understand and manage the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus simultaneously. […]

Abstract: Notwithstanding the dispersed nature of the water, energy and food (WEF) nexus scholar- ship in the African continent, its strategic importance to the African agenda has gained widespread attention in research and planning circles. In this regard, the bibliometric science mapping and content analysis of the WEF nexus scientific publication trends, the conceptual, intellectual and […]