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Highlights: A four-step planning framework for water-energy-food at the basin scale is developed. Detailed river basin simulation coupled with AI-driven optimization is implemented. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...

Water is essential for economic growth, human health, and the environment. Yet governments around the world face significant challenges in managing their water resources effectively. The problems...

Childhood stunting (defined as being too short for one’s age) has long-lasting impacts on children’s physical and cognitive development. These impacts, in turn, reduce productivity...

Highlights Water resilient food systems will be critical for meeting future food demands under changing climates. Six foundational elements of good...

Warming temperatures tend to damage crop yields, yet the influence of water supply on global yields and its relation to temperature stress remains unclear. Here we...

The policy brief presents a short summary of a study from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) that used an integrated irrigation-energy planning framework to identify groundwater irrigation...

Groundwater resources are a crucial driver of development. Since the 1970s, the expansion of irrigated land on the margins of the existing 'traditional' oases has been encouraged by the Tunisian authorities to enhance...

The evidence on the potential for agricultural interventions to contribute to improved nutrition has grown considerably over the past decade (Ruel et al., 2018). Numerous studies have...

How Many and When? The current analysis period of June to September 2021 coincides with the harvest and post-harvest period marked by relatively good food availability: for this period, over...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Ghana declared closure of schools and a partial lockdown in some parts of the country at the beginning of the pandemic. In May 2020 movement restrictions relaxed...