Water-Energy-Food nexus: framing the opportunities, challenges and synergies for implementing the SDGs

Yillia, Paul T.

doi:10.1007/s00506-016-0297-4

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“…This deliberately stands in contrast to prominent thoughts in the WEF Nexus community (e.g., [19,21,53,54]). The unmanageable complexity of the WEF Nexus has been criticized (see e.g., [1,29]).…”

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confidence: 87%

“…After the WEF Nexus gained popularity in 2011, it seems to be the common understanding that the Nexus Approach must be considered at all scales or across scales respectively [19,29,53,54], or at least at different scales [20,53,55]. What is exactly meant with the term "scale" in these cases is ambiguous.…”

Section: Water-energy-food Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…What is exactly meant with the term "scale" in these cases is ambiguous. Authors refer to scales e.g., in terms of governance and decision making [19,29,54], local, national, global etc. [19,20,53,54] or spatial scale [19,20,29,53,54].…”

Section: Water-energy-food Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Making the Water–Soil–Waste Nexus Work: Framing the Boundaries of Resource Flows

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Abstract:The Sustainable Development Goals have placed integrated resources management, such as integrated water resource management, at the heart of their targets. The upcoming "International Decade for Action-Water for Sustainable Development", 2018-2028 has highlighted the importance of promoting efficient water usage at all levels, taking into account the water, food, energy, and environmental nexus. While integrated resource management approaches have been defined and applied for decades, nexus approaches are more recent. For these latter approaches to be implemented on the ground, their system boundaries need to be clarified. While the Water-Energy-Food Nexus focuses on sectors, the Water-Soil-Waste Nexus addresses linkages between environmental resources-namely water, soil and waste-to tackle sustainable management. In this paper, we analyzed integrated management systems and how their system boundaries are defined. From this we determined that in order for system boundaries to be applicable, they should be clear, wide and flexible. Based on this, we propose the boundary of the Water-Soil-Waste Nexus system. We use two case studies to exemplify the usefulness of these system boundaries.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Water-energy-food Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Linking food security and sustainable development in industrial crop settings Food security goes beyond the fundamental biophysical needs related to nutrition, as it is linked with multiple other processes in ecosystems and socioeconomic systems, including employment/income generation, water management, energy provision, and biodiversity conservation, among others (Kanter et al 2016;Yillia 2016). These linkages are very profound in industrial crop systems of Africa (Gasparatos et al 2011(Gasparatos et al , 2015Wiggins et al 2015), suggesting that within such systems food security has all the characteristics of a wicked sustainability problem that cannot be tackled through simple solutions (Breeman et al 2015).…”

Section: The Role Of Education and Gender Equalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In other words, these trade-offs can manifest at the household, local, regional or global scale, and can have varying effects at household food security (Griggs et al 2014;Kanter et al 2016;Yillia 2016). For example, the production of different bioenergy crops related in Africa can have important implications for carbon stocks and as a result the global climate (e.g., Elshout et al 2015;Romeu-Dalmau et al 2016), affecting thus the overall agricultural system considering that climate change is a major risk for agriculture in the continent (Muller et al 2011;Rosenzweig et al 2014).…”

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Assessing the food security outcomes of industrial crop expansion in smallholder settings: insights from cotton production in Northern Ghana and sugarcane production in Central Ethiopia

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The current industrial crop (IC) expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) may have important ramifications for food security. This study proposes a rapid appraisal method that can capture the food security outcomes of IC expansion in smallholder settings in SSA. A key element of this approach is a common unit of household caloric intake that captures food security across its four pillars (availability, access, utilization, stability). This approach also considers the role of women in household food security. The proposed approach is tested in two radically different smallholder IC settings: cotton production in Northern Ghana and sugarcane production in Central Ethiopia.

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Sustainable Development Goals as educational tools to raise students' awareness of the rural development of biosphere reserves: A case study of Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve

Mammadova

2019

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Biosphere reserves (BRs) function as learning sites to implement the UN's 2030 Agenda for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, many BRs in Japan now face issues such as depopulation and aging, and without inhabitants and young residents, these regions cannot be called sustainable. In this study, SDGs were used as tools to raise awareness in youth towards the rural issues within BRs. Fieldtrips were conducted in Japan's Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve. Based on the 17 SDGs, 17 community service activities were conducted by performing experiential practices in the social, tourism, and industrial sectors of a village. After the fieldtrips, 81% of the students replied that SDGs helped to identify and become aware of local issues. Most students found the lifestyle of the villagers very challenging for youth. SDGs helped students to see the reality of the village and those factors that prevent sustainable development.

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Water-Energy-Food nexus: framing the opportunities, challenges and synergies for implementing the SDGs

Cited by 70 publications

References 7 publications

Making the Water–Soil–Waste Nexus Work: Framing the Boundaries of Resource Flows

Making the Water–Soil–Waste Nexus Work: Framing the Boundaries of Resource Flows

Assessing the food security outcomes of industrial crop expansion in smallholder settings: insights from cotton production in Northern Ghana and sugarcane production in Central Ethiopia

Sustainable Development Goals as educational tools to raise students' awareness of the rural development of biosphere reserves: A case study of Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve

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