Jul 7, 2020 | comment, News, power systems, Research, Water resources
By Julien Harou, Mathaios Panteli, Jose Gonzalez Cabrera, Gloria Salmoral and Rose Sumner. Traditionally planners considered the effects of water and energy systems on the other in simplified ways or not at all. This has often led to inefficient use of resources and a...
Jun 22, 2020 | News, power systems, Water resources
Read the Resilience Shift blog ‘Seeing the bigger picture – the water-energy nexus’ by FutureDAMS researchers Mathaios Panteli, Eduardo Alejandro Martínez Ceseña and Julien Harou. The authors discuss the opportunities and challenges in jointly...
Jun 19, 2020 | Agriculture and livelihoods, News, Research
By Sarah Redicker and Roshan Adhikari, The Global Development Institute The Covid-19 pandemic is having wide ranging effects on agricultural systems including major disruptions in food supply chains and other shocks affecting food production, as well as rural...
Jun 12, 2020 | News, Politics and governance
Barnaby Dye, The Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Tuesday 14th July 2020 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wq6uGTxnAbc Download the working paper: Meeting Africa’s Latest Dam Builders: The Indian ExIm Bank, ‘Entrepreneurial’ Companies and the...
Jun 11, 2020 | Agriculture and livelihoods, News
Roshan Adhikari, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Tuesday 30th June 2020 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KuMvOyX4_5I Expansion of irrigated agriculture is central to efforts to enhance food security, reduce rural poverty, and increase...