“…Competition in water use for food and energy security constitutes the core of an emerging debate on the food‐energy‐water (FEW) nexus: the growing societal needs for food and energy rely on the same pool of limited freshwater resources, a situation that is generating new questions on the environmental, ethical, economics, and policy implications of human appropriation of water resources. The FEW nexus is an emerging research focus for natural and social scientists who are exploring the impact of water limitations on the production of energy and food (Jones et al, ; Rulli et al, ; Scanlon et al, ), and the extent to which the human pressure on the global freshwater system is expected to increase in response to the growing demand for food and energy (Chiarelli et al, ; Grafton et al, ). Although advancements have been made in terms of understanding linkages among FEW systems (e.g., Biggs et al, ; Jones et al, ; Liu et al, ; Ringler et al, ; Smajgl et al, ) and working toward integrated modeling (Bazilian et al, ; McCarl et al, ), the highly interdisciplinary nature of FEW research has resulted in somewhat disparate clusters of FEW studies.…”