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SUMMARY:E-Learning Course: Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems: The Nexus between Water\, Energy and Food
DESCRIPTION:Overview \nIn this course you will become familiar with the ideas of the water-energy-food nexus and transdisciplinary thinking. You will learn to see your community or country as a complex social-ecological system and to describe its water\, energy and food metabolism in the form of a pattern\, as well as to map the categories of social actors. We will provide you with the tools to measure the nexus elements and to analyze them in a coherent way across scales and dimensions of analysis. In this way\, your quantitative analysis will become useful for informed decision-making. You will be able to detect and quantify dependence on non-renewable resources and externalization of environmental problems to other societies and ecosystems (a popular ‘solution’ in the western world). Practical case studies\, from both developed and developing countries\, will help you evaluate the state-of-play of a given community or country and to evaluate possible solutions. Last but not least\, you will learn to see pressing social-ecological issues\, such as energy poverty\, water scarcity and inequity\, from a radically different perspective\, and to question everything you’ve been told so far. \n\nLevel: Intermediate\nCommitment: 4-6 hours/week\nLanguage of Instruction: English\nPass all graded assignments to complete the course\n\nView Syllabus Here \nEnrollment and Dates \nEnroll can be completed on the Coursera website. This course is offered a 8 weekly intervals with the upcoming enrollment and start dates: \n\n10 February 2020 (enrollment closing 15 February)\n6 April 2020 (enrollment closing 11 April)\n1 June 2020 (enrollment closing 6 June)\n27 July 2020 (enrollment closing 1 August 2020)\n\nIntended Participants \nThe course is directed toward upper-division undergraduate and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines (environmental sciences\, engineering\, agricultural sciences\, social sciences) as well as professionals (NGOs\, think tanks) and policy makers concerned with sustainable development in both developed and developing countries. \nInstructors \nMario Giampietro\, ICREA Research Professor\nInstitute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) \nAndrea Saltelli\, Guest researcher\nInstitute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) \nTarik Serrano\, Post-Doc Researcher\nInstitute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) \nCourse Creator  \nThe Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is a public university located in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. International in its outlook\, it is fully consolidated within its local surroundings\, and offers quality education in close association with research activity\, the transfer of scientific\, technological\, cultural and educational knowledge\, the promotion of its human potential and the responsible management of available resources. The UAB currently offers 81 degrees\, 130 official Master Programmes and 183 UAB-specific Masters Degrees. In addition\, it offers 174 lifelong learning programmes and 65 PhD Programmes\, 27 of which have been distinguished through Quality Awards. The UAB has a total of over 3\,500 teaching and research staff\, over 2\,000 administrative staff and over 40\,000 students. \n 
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/e-learning-course-sustainability-of-social-ecological-systems-the-nexus-between-water-energy-and-food/
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191115
DTSTAMP:20260424T063729
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SUMMARY:Conference: Prevention and management of conflicts linked to the governance of natural resources in West Africa: opportunities and challenges
DESCRIPTION:About\nThe Civil Peace Service and the Frexus project\, both implemented by the GIZ\, are organizing an international conference on the theme: “Prevention and management of conflicts related to natural resource governance in West Africa: challenges and opportunities.” The conference takes place between November 12th and 14th 2019 in Niamey\, Niger. The conference aims to inform and create synergies between different actors from West Africa and elsewhere\, sharing their capacities in the prevention\, reduction and transformation of conflicts related to the management of natural resources. \nView Conference Document Here 
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/conference-prevention-and-management-of-conflicts-linked-to-the-governance-of-natural-resources-in-west-africa-opportunities-and-challenges/
LOCATION:Niamey\, Niger
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191024T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191024T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T063729
CREATED:20191008T233415Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Changing Farm Structure and Rural Transformation in Africa
DESCRIPTION:About\nPresenter: Thomas Jayne\, University Foundation Professor of Agriculture\, Food\, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University \nThe rise of medium-scale farms in Africa is affecting the region in diverse ways that are difficult to generalize. Many such farms are a source of technical change and commercialization of African agriculture; they attract agribusiness investment and improve market access conditions for all nearby smallholders. However\, medium-scale land acquisitions may exacerbate land scarcity in favorable rural areas\, raise land prices\, and crowd out young peoples’ access to land for farming. While much more research is necessary to effectively guide African governments\, our findings indicate that medium-scale commercialized farms can be a dynamic driver of agricultural transformation but this does not reduce the importance of agricultural ministries maintaining a clear commitment to supporting smallholder farms. Strengthening land tenure security of indigenous rural people to maintain land rights and support productivity investments by smallholder farm household remains crucial. \nRegister Here \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/pim-webinar-changing-farm-structure-and-rural-transformation-in-africa/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Past Webinars,Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191009
DTSTAMP:20260424T063729
CREATED:20200702T183108Z
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SUMMARY:SNIP: Chris Scott Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Strategic Networks and Initiatives Program (SNIP) Fall Speakers Series \nOn October 8th\, Penn State hosted Christopher Scott for seminar titled: “Sustaining Groundwater Irrigation in Breadbasket Regions: A Water-Energy-Food Nexus Diagnostic Assessment” \nProf. Scott serves as Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy\, Professor of Geography and Development\, and Director of the Consortium for Arizona-Mexico Arid Environments – all at the University of Arizona.  He is founding co-director of the AQUASEC Center of Excellence for Water Security. He was a 2018-19 Leshner Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science\, focusing on water-energy-food security. He earned PhD and MS degrees at Cornell University and BS and BA degrees at Swarthmore College.  His research and engagement are concentrated in the Southwest US\, Mexico\, and India\, as well as Chile\, Argentina\, Brazil\, Peru\, and Nepal. He speaks Spanish and Hindi\, as well as conversational Portuguese and Nepali. \nWatch Recorded Presentation Here
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/snip-chris-scott-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Past Webinars,Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191010
DTSTAMP:20260424T063729
CREATED:20190506T133918Z
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SUMMARY:African Climate Risks Conference
DESCRIPTION:The African Climate Risks Conference (ACRC) is an open platform for sharing the latest African climate research among researchers\, policy makers\, practitioners and development partners. The ACRC will offer a prime opportunity to promote the uptake of new data\, tools and knowledge; brokering new research collaborations and more targeted donor support. It will also stimulate increased contribution of African experts to\, and improve coverage of Africa\, in the IPCC assessment reports; and bring together development partners to deliberate on how to improve programming to support African-led climate research and service priorities. The overarching theme of the ACRC is: \nDismantling barriers to urgent climate change adaptation actions.
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/african-climate-risks-conference/
LOCATION:Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190929
DTSTAMP:20260424T063729
CREATED:20190506T134128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240705T091233Z
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SUMMARY:8th World Conference on Ecological Restoration
DESCRIPTION:We proudly invite you to Cape Town for the 8th World Conference on Ecological Restoration from 24-28 September 2019\, jointly hosted by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) and the South African Water Research Commission. We are excited to bring together colleagues from across Africa and around the world in this spectacular setting to discuss and debate the many issues and challenges inherent in planning\, designing\, implementing\, and monitoring successful restoration programs in all biomes and on all continents.
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/8th-world-conference-on-ecological-restoration/
LOCATION:Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190920T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191023T123000
DTSTAMP:20260424T063729
CREATED:20190913T172523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240705T091140Z
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SUMMARY:SNIP Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Strategic Networks and Initiatives Program (SNIP) Fall 2019 Speaker Series at Penn State\n“Building a Food-Water-Energy Nexus Community of Transformative and Convergent Research” \nUpcoming Events:\n\nFriday\, September 20\, 11:00 AM\n\nSeminar with Claudia Ringler\, Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division at IFPRI\, entitled: \n“The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Insights from Global\, Basin and Local Case Studies of Growing\nNatural Resource Scarcity in the Eastern Nile Basin” \n\nFriday\, September 20\, 4:00 PM\n\nGeography Coffee Hour with Claudia Ringerl\, IFPRI\, entitled: \n“Achieving nutrition outcomes through improved agricultural water management: What are the options?” \n\nTuesday\, October 8\, 12:00 PM\n\nSeminar with Chris Scott\, Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at University of Arizona\, entitle: \n“Sustaining Groundwater Irrigation in Breadbasket Regions: A Water-Energy-Food Nexus Diagnostic Assessment” \n\nWednesday\, October 23\, 12:30 PM\n\nSeminar with Steve Davis\, Associate Professor\, Earth System Science at University of California Irvine\, entitled: \n“Integrated and Transdisciplinary Analyses of Food-Energy-Water Systems” \nDates and times of the following to be determined: \nWebinar by Arjen Hoekstra\, Professor in Water Management at University of Twente\, Netherlands\nMathew Kurian\, Research Assistant Professor at Penn State and former Academic Officer at UNU-Flores\, Germany \n \n 
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/snip-speaker-series/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania State University
CATEGORIES:Past Webinars,Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190921
DTSTAMP:20260424T063729
CREATED:20200702T183355Z
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SUMMARY:SNIP: Claudia Ringler
DESCRIPTION:Strategic Networks and Initiatives Program (SNIP) Fall Speaker Series \nOn September 20th\, a seminar and coffee hour with Claudia Ringer was held at Penn State University. Claudia Ringler was appointed deputy division director of the Environment and Production Technology Division at IFPRI in 2011. Claudia manages IFPRI’s Water Research group and since 2015 is also the Natural Resource Management Theme lead. \nSeminar title: “The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Insights from Global Basin\, and Local Case Studies of Growing Natural Resource Scarcity in the Eastern Nile Basin.” \nThe geography coffee hour title: “Achieving Nutrition Outcomes through Improved Water Management: What are the Options?” \nWatch video recording of seminar here 
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/snip-claudia-ringler/
CATEGORIES:Past Webinars,Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190914
DTSTAMP:20260424T063729
CREATED:20200702T183622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240705T091041Z
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SUMMARY:SNIP: Ben Ruddell
DESCRIPTION:Strategic Networks and Initiatives Program (SNIP) Speaker Series \nBen Ruddell\, Ph.D.\, P.E.\, Director Associate Professor of the School of Informatics\, Computing\, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University and Director of FEWSION project\, held the webinar\, “FEWSION\, a National U.S. Mesoscale Supply Chain Network” on September 13th. \nFEWSION is an empirical description of the U.S. food\, energy\, and water system. The FEWSION project is a Big Data Fusion project to create and explore the first mesoscale map of the U.S. food\, energy\, and water (+everything) system. It is the first complete footprint database for every US city (water\, greenhouse gases\, etc.) along with vulnerability and resilience benchmarks. \nClick here to view recorded webinar \nClick here to explore the FEWSION website \nClick here to view the FEW-View educational map tool
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/snip-ben-ruddell/
CATEGORIES:Past Webinars,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20190620T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20190621T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T063729
CREATED:20190617T232007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240705T091156Z
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SUMMARY:UNFCCC Technical Expert Meetings on Mitigation (TEM-M)
DESCRIPTION:The UNFCCC Technical Expert Meetings on Mitigation will be held at The Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB 50) in Bonn\, Germany on June 20th and 21st from 11:00 to 19:00 (CEST). UNFCCC will be running a live webcast available to those not in physical attendance. \nThe meetings aim to promote sustainability of the water-energy-food nexus to address the issues related to increasing demand for food from a growing global population which\, in addition to climate change\, is placing significant pressure on agricultural production and natural resources. \nDuring the sessions\, governments and non-party stakeholders will explore high-potential mitigation policies\, practices\, and technologies with significant sustainable development co-benefits\, with the potential in increase pre-2020 climate ambition. It will be led and organized by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)\, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)\, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)\, and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)\, supported by the UNFCCC secretariat. \nThe event will consist of the following six sessions: \nSession 1: Decarbonizing the primary production phase of the agri- food chain \nSession 2: Decarbonizing the post harvesting phase of the agri-food chain \nSession 3: Circular economy solutions/innovations in water and energy management for the agri-food chain \nSession 4: Nature based solutions to integrate energy and water aspects into the agri-food chain \nSession 5: Making Water-Energy- Food integrated policies work for food security and the climate \nSession 6: Replicating and upscaling innovative solutions for securing clean energy and water access for the agri-food chain \nSession five in particular will focus on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and feature Margaret Koli as a speaker. In light of the outcomes of the workshop in Nigeria and the initiation of the WEFS nexus online platform\, the session calls upon experts to address the questions below related to learning from what works and where we are regarding policy and governance solutions aimed at promoting renewable energy and smart water use in the agri-food chain and socio-economic benefits of such solutions by discussing case studies\, examples and their work experience: \n  \n\nWhat policy and governance solutions are available/used to help accelerate the scaling up of renewable energy and smart water use in the agri-food chain?\nHow  these solutions benefit the agri-food chain\, particularly in rural areas?\nWhat can Parties and non-Party stakeholders learn from these policy options and governance frameworks\, including the enablers and challenges/barriers\, to result in emission reductions and sustainable development co-benefits?\n\n 
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/unfccc-technical-expert-meetings-on-mitigation-tem-m/
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190419
DTSTAMP:20260424T063729
CREATED:20191205T160030Z
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SUMMARY:Penn State University African Studies Program 7th Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:“Africa on the Rise! 60 years after 1960” \nThe African Studies Program at The Pennsylvania State University\, 7th annual conference\, on April 17th-18th\, 2020\, titled “Africa on the Rise! 60 years after 1960\,” commemorates the “Year of Africa.” 1960 significantly cascades the independence of African nations\, as no less than 17 countries gained their freedom from colonial rule in that year alone. Significantly\, with the struggles for independence and decolonization\, new nation states became mired in internal ethnic clashes\, racial discrimination\, dictatorships and kleptocracy\, foreign interventions\, exploitation of natural resources\, and urban and rural environmental issues\, to name some of the challenges. On the other hand\, and more so in the last 20 years\, there has been significant growth of African economies. We see leapfrogging of technologies (i.e. cell phones\, internet\, e-commerce); resurgences and entirely new creative cultural forms particularly in the arts (literature\, music\, visual\, performance\, and digital media); women at the forefront in public leadership roles; and\, an activation of a politically minded Pan-African youth population ready to change the future. This conference aims to trace the development of Africa since 1960 through formulations such as Global Africa and Theories of the Global South. It aims to bring together humanities and social science scholarship to critically review issues with regards to the decolonization of Africa\, Pan-Africanism\, the self-reliance of national economies\, nation-building experiments\, postcolonial challenges\, creative arts and new technologies\, and the future development of the continent. \n \nFor further inquiries\, please email psuafr@gmail.com. \nREGISTRATION FOR THE CONFERENCE IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/penn-state-university-african-studies-program-7th-annual-conference/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania State University
CATEGORIES:Other
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