Abstract
Nowadays, the world is recognizing the water-food-energy (WEF) as a conceptual framework that aims to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The WEF Nexus is being developed to support the integrity of national and more importantly local projects in the cross-sectoral partnerships and coordination to enhance the sustainable development outcomes from the different projects as well as avoiding the trade-offs. Most importantly, building a great synergy between the sectors is challenged by sectorial boundaries such as policy decisions, scaling investments, and cross-sectorial consequences, which leads to anticipation biases when it comes to social, economic, and environmental costs. This paper aims to review the latest integrated WEF Nexus modeling platform that has been developed in the NENA region during the project "Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Water Efficiency/Productivity and Water Sustainability in NENA Countries" (WEPS-NENA), led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
Highlights
WEF Nexus is considered nowadays a buzzword in the sustainable development communities on national and global levels
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the WEF Nexus modeling platform that facilitates the scenarios development and sensitivity analysis which is applied to the NENA countries and the Souss-Massa region in Morocco as our case study
As an urgent call to action, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a series of webinars under the WEPS-NENA project to define and give the necessary importance to the WEF nexus, identify its challenges and solutions as well as developing a practical application that supports the WEF nexus decision-making in the NENA region
Summary
WEF Nexus is considered nowadays a buzzword in the sustainable development communities on national and global levels. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) revealed that in 2020, between 720 and 811 million people were affected by hunger, which increased due to the Covid pandemic. This highlights the fact that major nexus challenges are faced by householders, institutions, local businesses, and communities on a local level. The WEF Nexus is mainly composed of 3 subsystems that are often treated separately [2]: water, energy, and food. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the WEF Nexus modeling platform that facilitates the scenarios development and sensitivity analysis which is applied to the NENA countries and the Souss-Massa region in Morocco as our case study. To put the light on the importance of such quantitative tools in form of an integrated WEF Nexus online platform that has been developed during this project to support the scenarios analysis of the integrated WEF Nexus on NENA countries
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