Local Community Perceptions Towards Water-Energy-Food Nexus Resources: A Perspective on Food Security

Abstract

Water-energy-food (WEF) nexus approach was specifically designed to address the nexus resources insecurity and enhance livelihoods. Although the WEF nexus approach in the global, national and transboundary scale has demonstrated notable successes in many cases, however, it still has several shortcomings local scale. The difficulties relate to the unsustainable exclusion and exploitation of nexus resource in individual bases, based on the data collected through a survey. The result shows nexus perceived from their benefits in individual basis rather than their interlinkages. This could be due to the community perceptions on one nexus resources, mainly food. Food (agriculture) is the centre of nexus resources in the community bases. This indicates that there is a missing link among water and energy, as sources for food production. Therefore, this paper emphasized that, yet more expected from government and other stakeholders towards achieving WEF nexus security and improving local community perceptions.