The Water-Energy-Food in Africa Initiative is excited to share with you updates on the current news and events, ways to get involved, and upcoming items to be on the lookout for. |
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Member Registration and Collaborative Platform
If you have not yet done so, we highly encourage interested participants to join the WEF Nexus in Africa Initiative as a member of our website and the Collaborative Platform.
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Understanding the Climate-Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Streamlining Water-Related Policies
Addressing the strong nexus between water, climate, energy and food is essential to achieve the objectives of the European Green Deal, which aims at making the EU's economy sustainable by turning climate and environmental challenges into opportunities across all policy areas. A climate-water-energy-food nexus will help to address these challenges by exploiting available synergies across all policy areas of the European Green Deal, maximize coherence and promote positive trade-offs between different policies. As a result, the EU’s research and innovation program has supported multiple projects to assess the water-energy-food nexus at various geographical scales and from a systemic point of view.
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Solving Shared Problems at the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus
Challenges such as climate change, population growth, and urbanization are disturbing the security and services of food water and energy system at an increasing rate. Therefore, scientists from U.S. and China studied challenges in food, energy and water systems and identified solutions are best achieved through international collaboration. Without strong international collaboration and innovation, there might come an point where environment degradation and ecosystem losses cannot be restored, with severe ramifications for the fast growing populations.
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Interview Series // Introducing the Nexus Dialogue Program and the People behind it: Irene Sander, Coordinator of the Global Nexus Secretariat
Irene Sander, Coordinator of the Global Nexus Secretariat talks about her individual perspectives on Water, Energy and Food security (WEF) Nexus challenges and opportunities, followed by her future visions that holds equitable access to water, energy and food for all.
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FAO-SEI-KTH WEF Nexus Webinar Series: Session Seven
WEF Nexus in Africa in collaboration with FAO, SEI, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology hosts a webinar session on "Selected experiences with WEF Nexus decision-making: applications in Jordan and Morocco" on April 27, 2021.This session will summarize the experiences of stakeholders in Jordan and Morocco in engaging in the WEF nexus process as implemented under the direction of FAO, followed by a Q&A session. Registration is required.
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Call for Manuscripts for Two Water Energy Food (WEF) Nexus Special Issues
The call for manuscript is now open for the research topic “Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Towards Knowledge Synthesis, Action Prioritization, and Revitalization of Security Debates” in Frontiers in Water, edited by Mohammad Al-Saidi (Qatar University), Bassel Daher (Texas A&M Energy Institute), and Nadir A. Elagib, (University of Cologne). This Research Topic is part of a series celebrating 10 years of Water-Food-Energy (WEF) Nexus research and implementation. Deadline for manuscript submission is June 24, 2021.
Similarly, another special issue is on the research topic "Water-Energy-Food-Health Solutions & Innovations for Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Drylands" cross-listed in Frontiers in Environmental Science, Frontiers in Earth Science, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems; edited by: Rabi H. Mohtar (American University of Beirut and Texas A&M University), Mirella Aoun (American University of Beirut), Bassel Daher (Texas A&M Energy Institute), and Chrysi S. Laspidou, University of Thessaly. Submission deadlines for abstract is 30 April 2021 and manuscript is 31 August 2021.
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Call For Abstract: International Water Resource Association (IWRA) Online Conference
Experts from all backgrounds, i.e. academics, water professionals, private sector practitioners and civil society stakeholders are invited to submit their abstract for IWRA online conference on " One Water, One Health: Water, Food and Public Health in a Changing World" by April 19th. The conference will be held from June 7th to 9th, 2021 and its main goal is to promote the sharing and exchange of the latest scientific and policy knowledge on the links between Water, Food, and Public health for the sustainable governance, use, and management of these resources globally.
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Resilience Meets the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Mapping the Research Landscape
By: Rick J. Hogeboom, Bas W. Borsje, Mekdelawit M. Deribe, Freek D. van der Meer, Seyedabdolhossein Mehvar, Markus A. Meyer, Gül Özerol, Arjen Y. Hoekstra and Andy D. Nelson
This paper reviewed recent scientific papers dealing with nexus and resilience contexts to examine the status quo of resilience thinking; map the research landscape along with major research foci and conceptualizations; and propose a research agenda, by distilling recommendations and knowledge gaps from the reviewed publications. Results identified five research avenues; (a) improving the understanding of resilience across the WEF nexus; (b) developing tools and indicators to measure and assess the resilience of WEF systems; (c) bridging the implementation gap; (d) integrating resilience and nexus thinking; and (e) considering other development principles and frameworks beside and beyond resilience.
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Jobs and Internship Opportunities
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Postdoctoral position // Water-Energy-Food-Environment Nexus in Transboundary River Basins
Laval University in Quebec- City, Canada is seeking PhD candidates to join a team of researchers working on the water-food-energy nexus in the Senegal River basin in West Africa. The successful candidate will focus relevant nexus issues such as the sequencing new hydropower plants, the impact of altered flow regimes on ethnic conflicts and mass migration, the development of climate-informed water allocation policies throughout the basin.
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Vacancy // Head of Nexus Research Programme on Integrated Resources Management
The United Nations University for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-Flores) in Dresden, Germany is searching for their next Head of Nexus Research Programme on Integrated Resources Management. The selected candidate will play a key role in delivering UNU’s grant generation goals through the development of a significant network of support and partnerships. Application submission closes on May 16th, 2021.
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Intern // Research, Global Renewable Energy
World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington, DC, is looking for current students, recent graduates and other candidates to support project related to Global Renewable Energy. The successful candidate will provide research and coordination assistance to the Global Energy Team’s various initiatives, with a particular focus on renewable energy projects (especially solar and wind) across East and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Application closing date is April 25, 2021.
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General Notice
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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 and practitioners who work in knowledge streams related to the disciplines of Sustainable Urban Global Initiative (SUGI) Nexus projects to enable new interactions, potential collaborations, and facilitation of participation in the congress. Eligible individuals include the members of the Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production, Water-Energy-Food Nexus, Finance and Economics, and Urban knowledge action networks as well as researchers and practitioners who are experts within these disciplines.
Speakers of accepted sessions are especially encouraged to apply. Registration for SRI2021 is now open so please sign up using this link to compete for a scholarship. Please join us and bring your community!
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