We should not waste time on relating IWRM and the Water-Food-Energy Nexus.
Both are political processes. Neither approach has much functionality in analysis, in policy-processes and in achieving outcomes if they are not seen to be the political processes which they are.
Water in food supply chains, in energy supply chains and in ecosystem services could be managed in a mutual mode but only if the players in private sector supply chains engage constructively. There are few incentives to do this. Rather there is too much path dependence and too many subsidies that need to be re-negotiated before technical and economic fundamentals - implicit in IWRM and the Water-Food-Energy Nexus can gain leverage on policy and outcomes.
The allocation and management of water is determined by the political landscapes in which they are carried out. They are not determined by water endowments and rational science.
Outcomes are important but we must recognise that it is processes that bring them about.
We should not waste time on relating IWRM and the Water-Food-Energy Nexus.
Both are political processes. Neither approach has much functionality in analysis, in policy-processes and in achieving outcomes if they are not seen to be the political processes which they are.
Water in food supply chains, in energy supply chains and in ecosystem services could be managed in a mutual mode but only if the players in private sector supply chains engage constructively. There are few incentives to do this. Rather there is too much path dependence and too many subsidies that need to be re-negotiated before technical and economic fundamentals - implicit in IWRM and the Water-Food-Energy Nexus can gain leverage on policy and outcomes.
The allocation and management of water is determined by the political landscapes in which they are carried out. They are not determined by water endowments and rational science.
Outcomes are important but we must recognise that it is processes that bring them about.