Water - Energy - Food Nexus Narratives and Resource Securities
A Global South Perspective
- 1st Edition - May 19, 2022
- Editors: Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi, Aidan Senzanje, Albert T. Modi, Graham Jewitt, Festo Massawe
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 2 2 3 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 8 3 7 - 4
Water–Energy–Food Nexus Narratives and Resource Securities: A Global South Perspective provides a knowledge synthesis on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus, focusing primari… Read more
Water–Energy–Food Nexus Narratives and Resource Securities: A Global South Perspective provides a knowledge synthesis on the water–energy–food
(WEF) nexus, focusing primarily on the global south. By presenting concepts, analytical tools, and case studies, the book serves as a practical resource
for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in sustainability and functional roles across all three sectors. It addresses key issues related to data
availability, tools, indices, metrics, and application across multiple scales, beginning with a summary of existing knowledge. Finally, it examines the WEF
nexus, presents global insights, and discusses future considerations and implications. This book presents an overview of existing knowledge on the WEF
nexus and examines how such research aligns with emerging global WEF nexus perspectives, making it ideal for professionals, government entities,
private industry, and the general public.
- Offers a conceptual framework on how to better understand the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus and its utility in natural resource management and sustainable development
- Presents advanced analytical tools for the quantification of linkages, trade-offs, and synergies among WEF sectors
- Utilizes global case studies to illustrate complexities across disciplines, geographies, and scales
Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in sustainability, particularly those focusing on the WEF sectors. Interdisciplinary researchers working in environmental science, hydrology, energy, and agriculture
1. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: its transition into a transformative approach
2. Some quantitative watereenergyefood nexus analysis approaches and their data requirements
3. EO-WEF: a water, energy, and food nexus geotool for spatial data visualization and generation
4. Scales of application of the WEF nexus approach
5. Tools and indices for WEF nexus analysis
6. Transboundary WEF nexus analysis: a case study of the Songwe River Basin
7. Applying the WEF nexus at a local level: a focus on catchment level
8. A regional approach to implementing the WEF nexus: a case study of the Southern African development community
9. Exploring the contribution of Tugwi-Mukosi Dam toward water, energy, and food security
10. The watereenergyefood nexus as an approach for achieving sustainable development goals 2 (food), 6 (water), and 7 (energy)
11. Enhancing sustainable human and environmental health through nexus planning
12. Financing WEF nexus projects: perspectives from interdisciplinary and multidimensional research challenges
13. The WatereEnergyeFood nexus as a rallying point for sustainable development: emerging lessons from South and Southeast Asia
14. The watereenergyefood nexus: an ecosystems and anthropocentric perspective .
15. Watereenergyefood nexus approaches to facilitate smallholder agricultural technology adoption
16. Building capacity for upscaling the WEF nexus and guiding transformational change in Africa
17. WEF nexus narratives: toward sustainable resource security
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 19, 2022
- Language: English
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Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi
Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Director for the Centre for Transformative Agricultural and Food Systems, South Africa. His primary goal is to work on research and development that is dynamic, transformative, informs policy, and achieves real life impacts within poor communities. His research focus includes crop water use and crop modelling to multi- and transdisciplinary research covering food systems, global change, the water-energy-food nexus and the science-policy-practice interface. He is linked to several policy making initiatives in South Africa and southern Africa where he serves on expert panels informing policy. For this, in 2019 he was awarded with the Water Research Commission’s award for Informing Policy and Decision making. He is also a member of the editorial board for Frontiers in Climate.
Affiliations and expertise
Honorary Associate Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; Director, Cetnre for Transformative Agricultural and Food Systems, South AfricaAS
Aidan Senzanje
Aidan Senzanje is a senior research fellow in the School of Engineering at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. His research interests are in irrigation technology, irrigation and agricultural water management and the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus. He has published over 60 journal articles, authored/co-authored 23 book chapters and co-edited 4 books. He was previously a visiting scientist at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Pretoria, South Africa. He has practical experience in undertaking technical consultancies in irrigation engineering, agricultural water management, project evaluation and environmental management systems. He was involved in the planning, development and launching of new academic programmes in Land and Water Management for the SADC region and the BSc Agricultural Engineering degree at the University of Zimbabwe.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South AfricaAM
Albert T. Modi
Albert T Modi is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for the College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He received his Masters from the then University of Natal in the early 1990s, after completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Fort Hare, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Ohio State University for his PhD. His primary research focus as an academic has been on the areas of agronomy and sustainable agriculture. He is a champion of sustainable agriculture, and of the value of indigenous knowledge in informing scientific research. In recognition of his mentorship skills, he also received a Water Research Commission Award for Human Capital Development in Water and Science Studies. He is on the editorial board of the South African Journal of Plant and Soil.
Affiliations and expertise
Deputy Vice Chancellor, College of Agriculture, Engineering, and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South AfricaGJ
Graham Jewitt
Graham Jewitt joined IHE Delft Institute for Water Education as Professor of Hydrology in 2019. Prior to this he was Director of the Centre for Water Resources Research and Umgeni Water Chair of Water Resources Research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Over the past twenty years, he has led several water and earth system science related initiatives, both in South Africa and abroad, with the relationship between land and water an overarching research thrust. He is on the editorial board of the journals Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) and Water SA, is a member of the management board of WaterNet, and is active in several other national and international fora. Recent work has been focused on the effective use of science to better inform land and water resources policy development, especially in developing countries, and developing tools to support the effective implementation of these.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The NetherlandsFM
Festo Massawe
Festo Massawe is Professor of Crop Science and Director of University of Nottingham’s Future Food Beacon of Excellence in Malaysia. He is also the former Head of the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham. He is the co-Director of CFF-UNMC Doctoral Training Partnership (CFF-UNMC DTP) and a member of the University of Nottingham Senate. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK in 2001, and thereafter worked as a Research Fellow in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, UK for four years. In this role, he coordinated research activities involving five countries (Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Germany and UK). Since joining UNM in 2006, Prof Massawe has continued to pursue international agricultural research and capacity development activities to fulfill his mission of achieving sustainable development through sustainable food production and provision of relevant and quality education.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, University of Nottingham, Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia; Director, Nottingham's Future Food Beacon of Excellence, Semenyih, Selangor, MalaysiaRead Water - Energy - Food Nexus Narratives and Resource Securities on ScienceDirect