The symposium aims to strengthen academic-business-government partnerships for developing sustainable urban systems that have robust resilience in the context of global environmental change. Specific objectives are to: Identify challenges and opportunities for achieving urban system sustainability regionally and globally Develop international academic-business networks to promote collaborative actions for decarbonization and sustainability Stimulate transdisciplinary ideas for […]

About Us Cracking the Nut 2021: Building Resilient Food, Water, and Energy Systems is a four-half-day virtual learning event from November 15-18, 2021. This year’s conference will highlight how public and private sector initiatives can create resilient systems that support rural and agricultural development and will focus on three tracks: Applying technology and digital solutions […]

The SADC Nexus Dialogue Project "Fostering Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus Dialogue and Multi-Sector Investment in the SADC Region" is supported by the European Commission as part of the global 'Nexus Regional Dialogues Programme". The project's overall objective is to support the transformation required to meet increasing water, energy, and food security demand in […]

Innovations such as Agrivoltaics have opened new prospects to improve quality of life while increasing resilience of the agricultural sector against climate change. The integrated triple land use system allows for production of food, electricity and water without exploiting natural aquifers and new land. Agrivoltaics is rapidly gaining popularity, but not yet in African countries. […]

This 1st Palestinian-Dutch conference is organized within the framework of the OKP-Pal project on Capacity Building in WASH and CSA Education and Research in Palestine, funded by Nuffic, the Netherlands. The 1st Palestinian –Dutch international conference aims to bring together the scientists, researchers, practitioners, and students to exchange and share their experience and research in […]

Do you work with digital technologies, innovations or data to deliver and transform agriculture and food systems? Join a global network of 1,200 people to help shape future investments in digital agriculture (D4Ag) capacities. From 19 November to 10 December, the Digital Agri Hub’s online D4Ag dialogue aims to identify capacity gaps, opportunities and best-bet […]

The 8th Africa Water Week (AWW-8) and the 6th AfricaSan will be held virtually from November 22-26, 2021. The two events (8th Africa Water Week and 6th AfricaSan) will jointly be organized and convened under the auspices of the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) in conjunction with the African Union Commission. The Government of […]

The 8th Africa Water Week (AWW8) and the 6th Africa Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene (AfricaSan6) are being jointly organized this year as a virtual conference on 22-26 November. Joined together as the Africa Water and Sanitation Week (AWSW), the conference is convened by the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) in conjunction with the […]

The objective of the virtual workshop is to update participants on recent Nexus Cluster initiatives. Projects that have started in the previous year will be presented, and emerging nexus-related research topics introduced and discussed. The workshop will provide a platform for high-level interaction and project groups to exchange their experiences. Additional discussion points include the Nexus […]

Mediterranean countries are facing a set of complex and interrelated challenges that are increasing climate change vulnerability of the region – many of which are directly related to water, energy and food production, distribution and use. These three elements are inextricably linked. Water is used for energy production, and energy is the dominant cost factor in […]