Challenges and opportunities in the operationalization of the Water-Environment-Energy-Food (WE2F) Nexus: Case study of the upper Niger basin and inner Niger delta, West Africa

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.contributor.donorDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeiten
cg.coverage.countryNiger
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NE
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierClaudia Ringler: 0000-0002-8266-0488
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202018302001en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.identifier.wlethemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses
cg.issn2267-1242en
cg.journalE3S Web of Conferencesen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.river.basinNIGERen
cg.subject.wleBIODIVERSITYen
cg.subject.wleDECISION MAKINGen
cg.subject.wleENERGYen
cg.subject.wleFOOD SYSTEMSen
cg.subject.wleLAND MANAGEMENTen
cg.subject.wleLIVELIHOODSen
cg.subject.wleMODELSen
cg.volume183en
dc.contributor.authorSeidou, O.en
dc.contributor.authorMaiga, F.en
dc.contributor.authorRingler, Claudiaen
dc.contributor.authorKalcic, S.en
dc.contributor.authorFerrini, L.en
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-04T05:53:24Zen
dc.date.available2021-01-04T05:53:24Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110686
dc.titleChallenges and opportunities in the operationalization of the Water-Environment-Energy-Food (WE2F) Nexus: Case study of the upper Niger basin and inner Niger delta, West Africaen
dcterms.abstractThe ever-increasing demand for water, food, and energy is putting unsustainable pressure on natural resources worldwide, often leading to environmental degradation that, in turn, affect water, food, and energy security. The recognition of the complex interlinkages between multiple sectors has led to the creation of various holistic approaches to environmental decision making such as Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM), Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Virtual Water (VW), Water Footprint (WF) and lately the Food-EnergyEnvironment-Water nexus (WE2F). All these approaches aim to increase resource use efficiency and promote sustainability by increasing the cooperation between traditionally disjoint sectors, and mainly differ by the number and relative weights of the sectors included in their framework. They also suffer from the same face and the same barriers for implementation, some of which may never be fully overcome. The paper discusses the benefits of adopting a WE2F nexus approach in the Upper Niger Basin (UNB) and the Inner Niger Delta (IND), but also the multiple difficulties associated with its practical implementation. IWRM/WE2F initiatives in the UNB/IND such as the BAMGIRE project piloted by Wetlands International and funded by the Dutch Embassy in Mali to secure livelihoods and biodiversity in a changing environment, is taken as an example of partial success in the use of a nexus approach to watershed management. It was shown there are multiple barriers to the operational implementation of the WE2F. However, while a full understanding of all interlinkage between sectors may never be possible, data collection, scientific research and model development can improve our ability to understand the complex system in which we live, and hence take better decisionsen
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2020-08-03
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSeidou, O.; Maiga, F.; Ringler, C.; Kalcic, S.; Ferrini, L. 2020. Challenges and opportunities in the operationalization of the Water-Environment-Energy-Food (WE2F) Nexus: Case study of the upper Niger basin and inner Niger delta, West Africa. E3S Web of Conferences 183: 02001. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202018302001en
dcterms.extent183: 02001en
dcterms.isPartOfE3S Web of Conferencesen
dcterms.issued2020
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherEDP Sciencesen
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF000923en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.1956231en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/7369en
dcterms.subjectfoodsen
dcterms.subjectnatural resourcesen
dcterms.subjectwateren
dcterms.subjectdemanden
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectenvironmenten
dcterms.subjectenergyen
dcterms.typeConference Paper

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