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Food, energy, and water are intrinsically connected through
economic and ecological linkages and dependent on limited resources
that are particularly threatened in developing countries by climate
change, economic and population growth. A nexus perspective that
simultaneously encompasses food, energy, and water has thus become
crucial to avoid inefficient resource use. This volume contributes
to the research on the food-energy-water nexus by first developing
three integrated modeling frameworks for ex-ante policy simulation
and then analyzing four policies in Malawi - biofuels production,
irrigation expansion, improved cookstoves and agroforestry. The
analyses show that the design of policies matters and that the
inclusion of smallholders generally maximizes synergies between
food, energy and water security. Integrated modeling frameworks are
vital for analyses of policies that simultaneously affect the
economic, social, and environmental spheres to quantify relevant
tradeoffs.
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