Jointly organized by United Nations University (UNU-FLORES) & Technische Sammlungen Dresden Concept and Themes: The term “nexus” in Latin describes the act of tying together or something which binds. The Resource Nexus looks at the synergies and tradeoffs between the managing of different environmental resources to achieve a net positive outcome. When discussing the Resource […]
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USAID/NIGERIA COVID-19 FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE
Nigeria is facing a food security crisis that is compounded by the COVID-19 global pandemic and its effects on the food value chain in the country. The pandemic has significantly disrupted already fragile value chains across the country, including people’s ability to produce, process, and distribute food. The disruption to agricultural productivity and markets has […]
Deadline Extension: Submit your Abstract for IWRA’s 2021 Online Conference (7-9 June)❗
For detail information on conference, click here.
Call for Abstracts of Water International‘s Special Issue on “The Role of Data and Models in Transboundary Water Governance”
Application Deadline: Friday, April 30th, 2021 Background: The attention of nation states towards monitoring and quantitative analyses to support transboundary water governance has increased over the past decades, driven by: advances in digital information collection and processing, widespread online access to information, the notion of informed decision-making, and a growing interest in comparative indicators such […]
The PRIMA WEFE NEXUS contest opens: Deadline for submission extended to 15 July 2021
This prize is funded by PRIMA, the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area with Horizon 2020 funds. It recognizes “research teams and practitioners” that have devised and demonstrated the successful implementation on the ground of combined management practices of water, energy, food and ecosystem resources in the Mediterranean, at local, sub-Regional and […]
Apply now for the Sustainable Urban Global Initiative Knowledge Fund
The Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI2021) has created a dedicated fund that will support professionals who work on sustainable urbanization and food-water-energy nexus topics to participate in the event online. Interested candidates can submit their applications online. As part of the global coordination function, Future Earth’s US Hub is providing registration funds for scholars […]
POSTDOC AFRICAN URBAN FOOD SYSTEMS: MAPPING, MODELLING, TRANSFORMATION
Do you want to inform the transformation of African Urban Food Systems? Do you want your mapping and modeling to contribute to climate-resilient and sustainable, healthy food systems in 3 African cities? If yes, Please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Location: Amsterdam FTE: 1 Job Description You will help coordinate and do research in a […]
A Future Design and Assessment of Water-Energy-Food-Environment Mega-Systems (DAMS) Guide for Engaging Stakeholders in Water-Energy-Food-Environment Systems Assessment and Planning
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 […]
Resilience Meets the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Mapping the Research Landscape
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. […]
Call For Manuscript for Research Topic”Water-Energy-Food-Health Solutions & Innovations for Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Drylands”; cross-listed in Frontiers in Environmental Science, Earth Science, Ecology and Evolution; and Sustainable Food Systems
Submission Deadlines Abstract- 30 April 2021 Manuscript- 31 August 2021 Description of Research Topic Primary resources gaps facing dryland, including access to water, food, energy, nutrition, and health care, are expected to increase with demographic, political, and climatic changes. These highly interlinked primary resources carry high risk and vulnerability. Disentangling these to better understand the […]