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Papers: International Workshop on Water-Energy-Food-Nexus: Implementation and Examples of Application, Adelaide, Australia, 2022

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AGENDA; MINUTES

Publication on Water - Energy - Food Nexus Narratives and Resource Securities

Chapter 1: The water-energy-food nexus: its transition into a transformative approach (Sylvester Mpandeli, Luxon Nhamo, Aidan Senzanje, Graham Jewitt, Albert Modi, Festo Massawe, and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi)
Chapter 2: Some quantitative water-energy-food nexus analysis approaches and their data requirements (Jafaru M. Egieya, Johann Görgens, and Neill Goosen)
Chapter 3: EO-WEF: a Earth Observations for Water, Energy, and Food nexus geotool for spatial data visualization and generation (Zolo Kiala, Graham Jewitt, Aidan Senzanje, Onisimo Mutanga, Timothy Dube, and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi)
Chapter 4: Scales of application of the WEF nexus approach (Janez Susnik, Sara Masia, and Graham Jewitt)
Chapter 5: Tools and indices for WEF nexus analysis (Janez Susnik, Sara Masia, Graham Jewitt, and Gareth Simpson)
Chapter 6: Transboundary WEF nexus analysis: a case study of the Songwe River Basin (Sara Masia, Janez Susnik, Graham Jewitt, Zolo Kiala, and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi)
Chapter 7: Applying the WEF nexus at a local level: a focus on catchment level (S. Walker, I. Jacobs-Mata, B. Fakudze, M.O. Phahlane, and N. Masekwana)
Chapter 8: A regional approach to implementing the WEF nexus: a case study of the Southern African Development Community (Patrice Kandolo Kabeya, Dumisani Mndzebele, Moses Ntlamelle, Duncan Samikwa, Alex Simalabwi, Andrew Takawira, Kidane Jembere, and Shamiso Kumbirai)
Chapter 9: Exploring the contribution of Tugwi-Mukosi Dam toward water, energy, and food security (Never Mujere, and Nelson Chanza)
Chapter 10: The water-energy-food nexus as an Approach for achieving sustainable development goals 2 (food), 6 (water), and 7 (energy) (Aidan Senzanje, M. Mudhara, and L. Tirivamwe)
Chapter 11: Enhancing sustainable human and environmental health through nexus planning (Luxon Nhamo, Sylvester Mpandeli1, Shamiso P. Nhamo, Stanley Liphadzi1, and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi)
Chapter 12: Financing WEF nexus projects: perspectives from interdisciplinary and multidimensional research challenges (Maysoun A. Mustafa. and Christoph Hinske)
Chapter 13: The Water-Energy-Food nexus as a rallying point for sustainable development: emerging lessons from South and Southeast Asia (Andrew Huey Ping Tan, Eng Hwa Yap, Yousif Abdalla Abakr, Alex M. Lechner, Maysoun A. Mustafa, and Festo Massawe)
Chapter 14: The water-energy-food nexus: an ecosystems and anthropocentric perspective (Sally Williams, Annette Huber-Lee, Laura Forni, Youssef Almulla, Camilo Ramirez Gomez, Brian Joyce, and Francesco Fuso-Nerini)
Chapter 15: Water-energy-food nexus approaches to facilitate smallholder agricultural technology adoption in Africa (Michael G. Jacobson)
Chapter 16: Building capacity for upscaling the WEF nexus and guiding transformational change in Africa (Tendai P. Chibarabada, Goden Mabaya, Luxon Nhamo, Sylvester Mpandeli, Stanley Liphadzi, Krasposy K. Kujinga, Jean-Marie Kileshye-Onema, Hodson Makurira, Dhesigen Naidoo, and Michael G. Jacobson)
Chapter 17: WEF nexus narratives: toward sustainable resource security (Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Aidan Senzanje, Albert Modi, Graham Jewitt, and Festo Massawe)

Articles related to the Water–Energy–Food Nexus from South Africa (Vice President Prof. Dr. Sylvester Mpandeli)

PRESENTATIONS

Presentations of International Workshop of “The Water-Energy-Food-Nexus: Implementation and Examples of Application”, 04 October 2022, Adelaide, Australia

1. Development of Water-Energy-Food Nexus Model for Basin-Scale Studies by Krishna Mondal Raja Babu Tantuway Chandranath Chatterjee and Rajendra Singh

2. Impact of Two Schemes on Water, Energy and Food Nexus: Examples from India by Avinash Mishra and Arunlal K.

3. Policy Implementation to Improve Water-Energy-Food Security in Indonesia by Anissa Mayangsari Duki Malindo

4. Inter Basin Water Transfer for Sustainable Agricultural Production Systemsa Case Study of Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Project of Andhra Pradesh, India by Vennela, G, Reddy, Ky., Vishnuvardhan, S., and Khalko, D

5. Spatial-Scale Water-Energy-Food Nexus Analysis in India – Insight from Implemented Policies by Mishra Krishna Mondal, Chandranath Chatterjee, Ashok, and Rajendra Singh

6. Catchment Based Water-Energy-Food Nexus Assessment: Example of the Crocodile River Catchment, Mpumalanga, South Africa by Sue Walker, Inga Jacobs-Mata, Nwabisa Masekwana, Bhekiwe Fakudze, and Tendai Sawunyama

7. Dual Use of Irrigation Water for Food Production and Hydropower Generation in Japan by Yukiya SAIKA

8. Solar – powered micro-irrigation demonsrations for food security, youth and Women empowerment in Malawi and Zambia by Isaac R. Fandika, Cheelo H. Mudenda, Horace Kakhiwa, Herbert Kumwenda, Collin Zalengera, Grivin Chipula, Geoffrey Mwepa

9. Application of Water-Energy-Food Nexus Framework Tools at different scales preliminary assessment by nwabisa masekwana, sue walker and Michael van der Laan

GALLERY

AWARDS

Water, energy and food are essential for human well-being and sustainable development. Global projections indicate that demand for freshwater, energy and food will increase significantly over the next decades under the pressure of population growth and mobility, economic development, international trade, urbanization, diversifying diets, cultural and technological changes, as well as climate change and other natural processes. The link between water, energy and food is inextricable in that water is an input for producing all kinds of agricultural crops and along the entire agro-food industry and supply chain. Energy in turn is required to produce and distribute water and food through processes such as pumping ground or surface water, powering tractors and irrigation machinery, and to process and transport agricultural goods. In more explicit terms, using water for irrigation might promote food production but it can also affect river flows and hydropower potential; growing crops under irrigation for bioenergy production can increase overall water exploitations and threaten food security; upgrading surface irrigation systems into more efficient pressurized techniques may conserve water but may also lead to higher energy consumption. Understanding and recognizing the diverse synergies and trade-offs involved between the three components is, thus, critical to ensure balance between water, energy and food security.

To this end, the global community is well aware of food-energy-water challenges, but has often addressed them in isolation, within sectoral margins. At the country level, fragmented sectoral responsibilities, lack of coordination, and inconsistencies between legal and regulatory frameworks has led to misaligned benefits and stress to the natural resources.

With a particular relevance to the Irrigation and Drainage sector, there lies the key question of food security in many developing countries. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts that by 2050, population growth will result in doubled demand for food globally. The resulting present and anticipated challenges entail that innovative approaches have to be adopted to increase food production in order to meet the growing demand. Irrigation development is thought to be a preeminent strategy to answer food security challenges which now claims close to 70 percent of all freshwater withdrawals made for human use. In this perspective, many developing countries are vesting ambitious plans to expand irrigated agriculture. Strategies mainly highlight a shift from public to private investment and from larger to smallerscale systems in irrigation by promoting the idea of affordable and effective irrigation to poor farmers worldwide. The resulting rewards of higher outputs, incomes and better diets are, however, at the expense of higher water and energy consumption.

In addition to the below membership, representatives from CIGR, FAO ICRISAT and Italy are Permanent Observers.In addition to the below membership, representatives from CIGR, FAO ICRISAT and Italy are Permanent Observers.

Notification

Scoping Document

Organized an International Workshop on “The Water-Energy-Food-Nexus: implementation and examples of applications”, 09:30-13:00 hours (TBC), 02 November 2023 from 09:30:13:30 hours as part of the 25th International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage and the 74th International Executive Council meeting, 01-08 November 2023 in Vishakhapatnam (Vizag), Andhra Pradesh, India.

The Call for papers for the above workshops is available for DOWNLOAD. We request the National Committee/ Committee to kindly circulate the announcement to the interested professionals/experts for submitting their abstracts/papers for the above workshops. Also, request all the professionals to submit their abstract(s) for the workshop with a copy to ICID Central Office (icid@icid.org).

Mandate:

(a) To exchange information, knowledge, and experience, as well as networking on the Water-Food-Energy Nexus topic in order to be up to date with new developments, methods and approaches. This can be the basis for a possible position paper on key issues on the nexus. (b) To prepare an overview document on the state of the art on improving water use efficiency and productivity within the nexus. (c) to produce a document of impact of climate change and possible use of non-conventional less water consuming crops (d) To prepare an overview document on the state of the art on model applications as useful management tools for water, crops, field and energy management within the nexus (e) To prepare and present reports on case studies on recent developments in the countries that are represented in the WG; and from presented cases of the workshops (f) To organize international workshops, seminars or symposia on the Nexus topic. (g) To implement ICID 2030 vision.

Established : 2020

Membership

Sl. No.	Name	Email	Country	Position
1	Prof. Dr. Ragab Ragab	ra*************	United Kingdom	Chair
2	Dr. K. Yella Reddy, FIE	ky*************	India	Vice Chair
3	Dr. Mahdi Sarai Tabrizi	m.*************	Iran	Secretary
4	Dr. Chung Feng Ding	cf*************	Chinese Taipei Committee	Member
5	Eng. Karshiyev Rustum Jurayevih	r.*************	Uzbekistan	Member
6	Dr. Lu Hui	lu*************	China	Member
7	Dr. Marco Arcieri	m.*************	Italy	Member
8	Prof. NAM Won Ho	wo*************	South Korea	Member
9	Dr. Narges Zohrabi	na*************	Iran	Member
10	Dr. Noppadon Kowsuvon	Pr*************	Thailand	Member
11	Dr. Watchara Suiadee	wa*************	Thailand	Member
12	Mr. Yukiya Saika	y.*************	Japan	Member
13	Mr. Herbert H. Van Lier	me*************	Italy	Observer
14	Dr. Piyatida Ruangrassamee	Pi*************	Thailand	Observer
15	Mr. Syaiful Mahdi	sy*************	Indonesia	Observer
16	Mr. Abbas Fadhel	ab*************	Iraq	Provisional Member
17	Ir. Adang Saf Ahmad	ad*************	Indonesia	Provisional Member
18	Dr. Amani Alfarra	am*************	Canada	Provisional Member
19	Mr. Basim Tuama Naser	ba*************	Iraq	Provisional Member
20	Mr. Books LIU Dongzhe	bo*************	China	Provisional Member
21	Mr. Carl Walters	ca*************	Australia	Provisional Member
22	Mr. Chaisri Suksaroj	fe*************	Thailand	Provisional Member
23	Prof. Cheh-Shy Ting	cs*************	Chinese Taipei Committee	Provisional Member
24	Dr. Deepak Khare - Direct Member	kh*************	India	Provisional Member
25	Prof. Dr. Vishnu Prasad Pandey	vi*************	Nepal	Provisional Member
26	Dr. Junzeng Xu	xj*************	China	Provisional Member
27	Mr. Liangsheng Shi (YP)	li*************	China	Provisional Member
28	Dr. Man Singh	ma*************	India	Provisional Member
29	Dr. P. Soman	dr*************	India	Provisional Member
30	Dr. Peng-Jui Wang	ar*************	Chinese Taipei Committee	Provisional Member
31	Prof. Dr. S. Vishnuvardhan	vi*************	India	Provisional Member
32	Prof. Dr. Zeinab Hussien Behairy	z_*************	Egypt	Provisional Member
33	Prof. Daniele de Wrachien	da*************	Italy	Permanent Observer

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