H13G:
Food Security in the Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Interactions, Impacts, and Policies II Posters


Session ID#: 8170

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:  Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Tingju Zhu, ZJU-UIUC Institute, International Campus, Zhejiang University, Haining, China
OSPA Liaison:  Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States

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:

Water resources transfers through southern African food trade: water efficiency and climate signals (62758)
Carole Dalin, University College London, Institute for Sustainable Resources, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy, and Resources, London, United Kingdom and Declan Conway, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
Modeling the impacts of regulatory frameworks on self-organization in dryland agricultural systems (63608)
Drew Gower, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Kelly K Caylor, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Paul Frederick McCord, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States and Tom P Evans, Indiana University Bloomington, Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) and Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States
A Theoretical Model of Water and Trade (66703)
Qian Dang1, Megan Konar2, Jeff Reimer3, Giuliano Di Baldassarre4, Xiaowen Lin2 and Ruijie Zeng5, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Applied Economics, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala, Sweden, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
Trends and Implications of Stream Temperature for Energy and Fish Production (67295)
Xiao Zhang1, Hong-Yi Li1, Dr. Lu Liu, PhD2, Mohamad Issa Hejazi1 and L. Ruby Leung1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Scaling Effect In Trade Network (67775)
Xiaowen Lin, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Richard Rushforth, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Benjamin L Ruddell, Arizona State University, Fulton Schools of Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States and Jeff Reimer, Oregon State University, Applied Economics, Corvallis, OR, United States
Increasing Crop Yields in Water Stressed Countries by Combining Operations of Freshwater Reservoir and Wastewater Reclamation Plant (68871)
Rashi Bhushan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Tze Ling Ng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Using the SPEI to Estimate Food Production in East Africa (74804)
Gregory J Husak1, Mike Hobbins2, James P Verdin3, Pete Peterson1 and Chris C Funk4, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Societal organization and human water use: tipping points in socio-hydrology (75480)
Saket Pande, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands and Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
Agricultural water and energy use in the Senegal River Valley (84573)
Mutsa Cecelia Masiyandima, AfricaRice, Cotonou, Benin and Abdoulaye Sow, AfricaRice, St. Louis, Senegal
Integrated Resources Management Approach to Ensuring Sustainable Food Security in Nigeria-The Nexus of Rice Production in Niger State (85667)
Tolu Omotoso, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

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