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Rohingya Refugees Mark Two Years Since The Crisis

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Woman drawing water in Central Myanmar

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Five key actions to ensure water and food security in the face of COVID-19

In a recent webinar, experts weighed in on how water planning can best incorporate the critical uncertainties that pandemics bring.

Review on climate and water resource implications of reducing renewable power curtailment in China: A nexus perspective

Reviewing the potential benefits of reducing curtailments on renewable power generation in China.

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Treated wastewater from the Amman-Zarqa area flows through the Zarqa River to the Jordan Valley, where it is used for irrigation

Beating water and land shortages in the Middle East and North Africa

Waterfall

Advancing the water-energy-food nexus: social networks and institutional interplay in the Blue Nile

Other publications
Water
9 September 2014
Ethiopia

a leaf on a tree stump

Food security in the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the process heading?

SEI briefs
Governance
Water
12 July 2014

Watermelon farmers in Ningxia

A nexus approach for sustainable development in Ningxia, China

SEI briefs
Water
13 May 2014
China

A girl taking water from an irrigation scheme fed by the Koga dam in the Lake Tana basin.

Using a Nexus Approach to Support Development and Environmental Planning in Ethiopia

SEI briefs
Water
13 May 2014
Ethiopia

Synergy

SEI Research Synthesis: The water-energy-food nexus

Other publications
Water
7 April 2014

Landscape from above

Connecting the dots: can a ‘nexus’ approach help produce better SDGs?

Perspective
Governance
Water
18 March 2014

An alfalfa field under irrigation near San Miguel, in Central California.

Cross-sectoral integration in the Sustainable Development Goals: a nexus approach

SEI briefs
Governance
Water
27 February 2014

Colombian green mountain

Sustainable Development in Fragile Ecosystems: Applying the ‘Nexus’ Approach to the Orinoco River Basin in Colombia

SEI briefs
Energy
Water
30 October 2013
Colombia

River

A water resources model to explore the implications of energy alternatives in the southwestern U.S.

Waterfall

How Understanding Social Networks Can Help to Govern the Nexus: a Case from the Blue Nile Basin

SEI briefs
Water
14 October 2013
Ethiopia

River in the U.S

A water system model for exploring electric energy alternatives in southeastern U.S. basins

American river

Integrated impacts of future electricity mix scenarios on select southeastern U.S. water resources

Soil

A ‘nexus’ approach to soil and land management

Journal articles
Land
Water
23 August 2013

Irrigation

Unpacking the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Tools for Assessment and Cooperation Along a Continuum