Wani, S P (2025) Promoting sustainability transition in the nexus of water, energy, and food. In: Climate Change Impacts on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Net Zero Emissions and Sustainability. Elsevier, Netherlands, pp. 61-82. ISBN 978-0-443-22320-4
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Meeting the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) is complicated by the impacts of climate change (CC) and growing population, increasing incomes, changing diets, growing water scarcity, land degradation, and the unholy nexus amongst water–energy–food (WEF). The “Death Valley of Impacts,” which exists in the traditional approach, must be crossed using innovative technologies to upgrade extension services to ensure that small farm-holders get the benefit of science of discovery through strengthened “science of delivery” to meet the SDGs of hunger, poverty, and wellbeing sustainably. Energy is a must for increasing food production, which calls for a shift to holistically alternate sources of energy such as solar power, wind power, biogas, and biofuels in place of fossil fuels, causing CC. We have crossed six out of nine planetary boundaries, which will change people's lives and food. India, with its largest population in the world, has reduced per capita water availability and reached the water-scarce club. Growing incomes and associated social changes, increasing land degradation, fragmentation of land resulting in 146 million land holdings from a modest 71 M in 1970 are challenges. Absolute poverty in India has been eliminated, but ensuring food, nutrition, and income security sustainably poses a great challenge. The business-as-usual approach of adopting compartmental solutions would not work, and breaking the nexus of WEF calls for innovative science-based integrated solutions for sustainable development.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Global Research Program - Resilient Farm and Food Systems |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | water, energy, food, sustainability |
| Subjects: | Others > Food Production Others > Water Resources |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2026 09:28 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2026 09:28 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/13580 |
| Acknowledgement: | UNSPECIFIED |
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