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        Laura Forni

        Senior Scientist

      • Expertise: agricultural and resource economics
      • laura.forni@sei.org
      • @LauForni
      • +1 (530) 753-3035 #6
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      Laura Forni is a Senior Scientist with SEI US. She has a master’s degree in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California–Davis.

      Her work at SEI initially focused on incorporating agricultural land decisions — which were driven by the economic valuation of water — into the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) software. She has also been involved in the execution of WEAP ensemble runs and the visualization of WEAP output under various projects that used the Robust Decision Support (RDS) methodology in Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Argentina and California.

      Laura currently creates visualizations of WEAP model output for various projects, in order to enable stakeholder interaction and facilitate a discussion about concerns that vary in each basin.

      She is also involved in the Gender and Social Equity Programme, exploring how to mainstream and integrate gender and social equity aspects into model-based projects.

      Publications by Laura Forni

      • Connecting water access with multidimensional poverty: the case of Tupiza River Basin in Bolivia
      • Developing a regional agricultural nonpoint salinity pollution management framework: application to the San Joaquin River, California
      • Institutions and the economic efficiency of managed aquifer recharge as a mitigation strategy against drought impacts on irrigated agriculture in California
      • The water-energy-food nexus: an ecosystems and anthropocentric perspective
      • Social hydrological analysis for poverty reduction in community-managed water resources systems in Cambodia
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      Perspectives by Laura Forni

      • Five considerations for a just transition for Indigenous communities and ethnic minorities
      • Cinco consideraciones para una transición justa para las comunidades indígenas y las minorías étnicas
      • The importance of valuing water
      • COVID-19 revela por qué el acceso equitativo al agua es crucial
      • Covid-19 reveals why equitable water access is crucial – and long overdue
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      Featured stories with Laura Forni

      • SEI at World Water Week 2022
      • Gestión participativa del agua: referentes para procesos participativos de acueductos comunitarios
      • Narrativas de la cuenca del Campoalegre, donde las oportunidades son escasas
      • World Water Day 2022
      • Narratives from the Campoalegre watershed, where opportunity is scarce
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      Projects and tools with Laura Forni

      • URBAN WASH
      • Water and social equality
      • Iniciativa de SEI sobre igualdad de género, equidad social y pobreza
      • Iniciativa de SEI: Agua sin Límites
      • USAID Regional Water and Vulnerable Environment activity (WAVE)
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