This course will focus on how WaPOR data can be used to monitor global challenges for water in agriculture. It will provide an introduction in the current global challenges for water in agriculture, identify which WaPOR data could be used for a specific application. This is followed by hands-on exercises for accessing WaPOR and other relevant datasets, applying different types of spatio- and temporal analyses using the data and finally visualising the results.
This course is free, open access, self-paced and can be started and completed at any time.
Achieving water, energy and food (WEF) security is a priority for Southern Africa and the Middle East and North Africa region, especially under unfavourable climate change, increasing urbanisation, population growth, and advanced ecosystems degradation. Achieving WEF securities will require a collaborative and inclusive approach that considers the interconnections and interdependencies among the three sectors.
Since 2011, when the WEF nexus first came to prominence, various actors have been championing it at various levels. There has been progress in building a shared understanding of the WEF nexus concept, using it to facilitate discourse through various dialogues, and recently developing frameworks and analytical models/tools.
The WEF Nexus Masterclass and in-person Advanced School are capacity-building initiatives to support early-career researchers, postgraduate students, managers, and practitioners in understanding nexus thinking, particularly the WEF nexus, as a transformative approach to sustainable natural resources management and socio-economic development. As the field of nexus research is relatively recent, participants will be exposed to this rapidly developing and critically important way of thinking. Participants will improve their knowledge of the WEF nexus and become acquainted with the concepts, how to facilitate discourse and new frameworks, tools and methods for analysing the WEF nexus. The online WEF Nexus Masterclass serves as a feeder and preparatory course for the in-person Advanced School.
- Module/Course coordinator: Tumaini Wambua John
- Module/Course coordinator: Seleshi Yalew
