1st Edition
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Middle East and North Africa
1. The water – food – energy nexus: an introduction to nexus concepts and some conceptual and operational problems
Tony Allan, Martin Keulertz and Eckart Woertz
2. Financial challenges of the nexus: pathways for investment in water, energy and agriculture in the Arab world
Martin Keulertz and Eckart Woertz
3. Food-water security and virtual water trade in the Middle East and North Africa
Marta Antonelli and Stefania Tamea
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
Caroline King and Hadi Jaafar
5. The nexus as a political commodity: agricultural development, water policy and elite rivalry in Egypt
Harry Verhoeven
6. Nexus meets crisis: a review of conflict, natural resources and the humanitarian response in Darfur with reference to the water – energy – food nexus
Brendan Bromwich
7. To what end? Drip irrigation and the water – energy – food nexus in Morocco
Guy Jobbins, Jack Kalpakian, Abdelouahid Chriyaa, Ahmed Legrouri and El Houssine El Mzouri
8. Virtual-water content of agricultural production and food trade balance of Tunisia
Jamel Chahed, Mustapha Besbes and Abdelkader Hamdane
9. Energy cost of irrigation policy in Morocco: a social accounting matrix assessment
Mohammed Rachid Doukkali and Caroline Lejars
10. Impact of the Syrian conflict on irrigated agriculture in the Orontes Basin
Hadi H. Jaafar, Rami Zurayk, Caroline King, Farah Ahmad and Rami Al-Outa
11. Climate change and food-water supply from Africa’s drylands: local impacts and teleconnections through global commodity flows
Mark Mulligan
12. Towards a water – energy – food nexus policy: realizing the blue and green virtual water of agriculture in Jordan
Samer Talozi, Yasmeen Al Sakaji and Amelia Altz-Stamm
Biography
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.
