The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Middle East and North Africa

Martin Keulertz is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Purdue University. His research centres around the politics of water and food management in the MENA region. Eckart Woertz is a senior research fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. His previous work has been on Gulf financial markets, food security and oil politics.

1. The water – food – energy nexus: an introduction to nexus concepts and some conceptual and operational problems 2. Financial challenges of the nexus: pathways for investment in water, energy and agriculture in the Arab world 3. Food-water security and virtual water trade in the Middle East and North Africa 4. Rapid assessment of the water – energy – food – climate nexus in six selected basins of North Africa and West Asia undergoing transitions and scarcity threats 5. The nexus as a political commodity: agricultural development, water policy and elite rivalry in Egypt 6. Nexus meets crisis: a review of conflict, natural resources and the humanitarian response in Darfur with reference to the water – energy – food nexus 7. To what end? Drip irrigation and the water – energy – food nexus in Morocco 8. Virtual-water content of agricultural production and food trade balance of Tunisia 9. Energy cost of irrigation policy in Morocco: a social accounting matrix assessment 10. Impact of the Syrian conflict on irrigated agriculture in the Orontes Basin 11. Climate change and food-water supply from Africa’s drylands: local impacts and teleconnections through global commodity flows 12. Towards a water – energy – food nexus policy: realizing the blue and green virtual water of agriculture in Jordan