Financial challenges of the nexus: pathways for investment in water, energy and agriculture in the Arab world

Keulertz, Martin; Woertz, Eckart

doi:10.1080/07900627.2015.1019043

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“…Significant efforts should be also made by policy makers regarding identification of advanced water resource management to promote water saving irrigation, e.g., remote sensing and satellite imagery are useful to identify losses in agricultural productivity by assessing agricultural water use, which supports better agricultural planning [78]. Besides, a number of policy instruments, such as pricing strategy, economic sanctions, financial subsidies, etc., may give rise to internalization of the external cost of water, thus to drive development of less water intensive industries and services [7,79].…”

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Regional Water Footprint Assessment: A Case Study of Leshan City

Zhao

Zhang

2015

Sustainability

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This paper presents an assessment of urban water footprint in the period of 2001 to 2012 by taking Leshan City, China as a typical case study. The water footprint is calculated by the sum of the water footprints of various sectors, i.e., crop production, animal products, industrial processes, domestic waster, eco-environment, and virtual water trade. Results show that the water footprints of the various sectors rose by degrees varying from 19% to 55%, which gave rise to an increase of the total water footprint of 43.13% from 2001 to 2012. Crop production and animal products are identified as the major water intensive sectors, accounting for about 68.97% of the total water footprint. The water footprint in the Northeastern area of Leshan City is greater than that of the Southwestern area in the period 1992-2012, resulted in an expansion of water footprint in the Sha Wan and Wu Tongqiao Districts due to the development of urbanization. The application of water footprint assessment is expected to provide insight into the improvement of urban water efficiency, and thus aid in better water resources management.

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Regional Water Footprint Assessment: A Case Study of Leshan City

Zhao

Zhang

2015

Sustainability

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“…According to (Keulertz & Woertz, , p. 31), “agro‐investments in developing countries, have been identified as a ‘new frontier’ of agriculture by introducing modern management and production technologies”. LSLA are particularly a popular strategy by state and non‐state actors, especially from three major groups including Asian countries, (e.g., China and South Korea), western financial investors, and water scarce MENA economies, especially the Gulf countries (Keulertz & Woertz, ). As shown by the “Land Matrix” data, half of the top 10 countries that acquired the most farmland between 2000 and 2016 were major grain‐consuming countries in Asia mostly from GCC, accounting for about 40% of the overseas farmland traded (Lin, ).…”

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Drivers and challenges for transnational land–water–food investments by the Middle East and North Africa region

Hanna

2020

WIREs Water

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Over the last decade, transnational land–water investments in farmlands abroad by the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economies have been adopted as an alternative strategy to address water–food scarcity and security narratives. Large‐scale land acquisitions in farmlands abroad are often attributed to the food and fuel crisis of 2007/8 and 2010/11. Land–water investments entail several drivers and challenges in light of demographic growth trends, physical water stress, commodity market fluctuations, food sovereignty concerns, and climate change uncertainties across diverse countries of the MENA region. Despite the ongoing reliance on virtual water trade to secure their food needs, transnational investments were adopted by MENA economies as an alternative strategy for water–food security. From a political economy standpoint, such investments are founded on state‐capital alliances to achieve both; profit as well as larger strategic objectives. Critical literature attempted to unpack transnational land–water investments through different analytical lenses including accumulation by dispossession, resources grabs, nexus, and water security mercantilism. Yet, the materialization of the investments on the ground go beyond these debates, and is often associated with challenges related to infrastructure, energy, investment climate, labor, as well as other environmental, social, and sovereign risks. Most importantly, land–water–food investments may also entail hydropolitical risks on local, national, and transboundary levels. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance Engineering Water > Planning Water

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“…Nevertheless, they [38] highlight the need for "a 'poly-centric' and multi-level governance system that has been described as an 'institutional tripod' involving water users, states and markets". The "institutional tripod" can be criticized from different perspectives such as diversity and power inequities of users within sectors [39][40][41][42][43] and competing sectors [44][45][46], market failure and the responsibility of markets for the water crisis [47,48] as well as states institutionalizing inequities through water rights reforms [42,[49][50][51].…”

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Water Security in the Syr Darya Basin

Wegerich

Rooijen

Soliev

et al. 2015

Water

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Abstract:The importance of water security has gained prominence on the international water agenda, but the focus seems to be directed towards water demand. An essential element of water security is the functioning of public organizations responsible for water supply through direct and indirect security approaches. Despite this, there has been a tendency to overlook the water security strategies of these organizations as well as constraints on their operation. This paper discusses the critical role of water supply in achieving sustainable water security and presents two case studies from Central Asia on the management of water supply for irrigated agriculture. The analysis concludes that existing water supply bureaucracies need to be revitalized to effectively address key challenges in water security.

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Financial challenges of the nexus: pathways for investment in water, energy and agriculture in the Arab world

Cited by 25 publications

References 15 publications

Regional Water Footprint Assessment: A Case Study of Leshan City

Regional Water Footprint Assessment: A Case Study of Leshan City

Drivers and challenges for transnational land–water–food investments by the Middle East and North Africa region

Water Security in the Syr Darya Basin

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