H11N:
Food Security in the Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Interactions, Impacts, and Policies I


Session ID#: 10625

Session Description:
Water-food-energy nexus closely relates with poverty, security, equity and sustainability. It involves various tradeoffs and synergies: biofuel competes with agriculture for land and water resources, streamflow drives hydropower to generate energy but jeopardizes fishery, water allocation affects food and energy production. A nexus perspective is essential to advance the understanding of the interactions and facilitate effective management to achieve food security and sustainable development. In this session, we invite submissions on: 1) observations and evaluations of tradeoffs and synergies among water, food and energy, 2) how climate change or economic development affect the fate of food security, 3) novel approaches or technologies to improve food security especially in developing countries, 4) policies and management strategies to reduce malnutrition and towards sustainable joint development including but not limited to virtual water trade, land grab, infrastructure, hydropower planning and operation, water productivity improvement.
Primary Convener:  Xiao Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, Tingju Zhu, ZJU-UIUC Institute, International Campus, Zhejiang University, Haining, China and Carole Dalin, University College London, Institute for Sustainable Resources, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy, and Resources, London, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Carole Dalin, University College London, Institute for Sustainable Resources, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy, and Resources, London, United Kingdom and Xiao Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carole Dalin, University College London, Institute for Sustainable Resources, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy, and Resources, London, United Kingdom

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0495 Water/energy interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A PERSPECTIVE ON SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN INTERDEPENDENT WATER-ENERGY-FOOD SYSTEMS (Invited) (58683)
Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, New York, United States and Naresh Devineni, CUNY City College of New York, Department of Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States
Implications of Postharvest Food Loss/Waste Prevention to Energy and Resources Conservation (Invited) (61424)
Ximing Cai and Majid Shafiee-Jood, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Food security, irrigation, climate change, and water scarcity in India (Invited) (62540)
Thomas W Hertel1, Farzad Taheripour1, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan1, Sebnem Sahin2 and Jorge Escurra2, (1)Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States, (2)World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
Characterizing tradeoffs between water and food under different climate regimes across the United States (Invited) (58277)
Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Xiao Zhu, Lehigh University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Chinpihoi Kipgen, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Xiuyuan Li, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States and Indrani Pal, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States
Evaluating the impact of climate policies on regional food availability and accessibility using an Integrated Assessment Model (78279)
Elisabeth Gilmore, University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Policy, College Park, MD, United States, Yiyun Ryna Cui, University of Maryland College Park, Center for Global Sustainability, College Park, MD, United States and Stephanie Waldhoff, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
The Impacts of Water Quality and Food Availability on Children’s Health in West Africa: A Spatial Analysis Using Remotely Sensed Data and Small-Scale Water Quality Data and Country-level Health Data (70542)
Kathryn Grace1, Logan Frederick2 and Brent Lloyd2, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, MN, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Biofuel Crops Expansion: Evaluating the Impact on the Agricultural Water Scarcity Costs and Hydropower Production with Hydro Economic Modeling  (81610)
Guilherme Marques, Institute of Hydraulic Research UFGRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Challenges and Opportunities (83726)
Michael Gerst1, Michael E Cox2, Kim Locke3, Mark Laser4, Michael Raker5, Curt Gooch6 and Anne R Kapuscinski2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Environmental Studies Program, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Environmental Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)Agricultural Energy Consultants, Burlington, VT, United States, (6)Cornell University, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Ithica, NY, United States

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