Enhanced Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus (WEFE) Decisions in Dry Land Agri-food Production

The project seeks to promote innovations that improve irrigation water efficiency, reduce fossil fuel consumption, improve food and animal production, and preserve natural resources. This objective will be addressed in a changing, uncertain, climatic, and socio-economic context. The main hypothesis that will be tested during this proposal is that agricultural systems that combine more diverse components (diversity of farms in a region, of activities in a farm, and of crops and varieties in a field or crop sequence) would support both the resilience/sustainability of agricultural systems and water resource use efficiency.

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Source of funding: CGIAR Trust Fund Contributors

Contact references

• Project Scientific Coordinator: Hatem BELHOUCHETTE
• Contact: belhouchette@iamm.fr 

Website : https://www.cgiar.org/initiative/climate-resilience/?section=about 

Partners

• The Initiative engages 130 partners across six focus countries and globally on demand for the Initiative’s outputs, innovation, and scaling. Partners include ministries that coordinate climate action; ministries of agriculture; national agricultural research and extension systems; meteorological departments; disaster management units; local, national, and international NGOs; farmers’ organizations; United Nations organizations; other regional organizations and networks; insurance providers; micro-finance institutions and cooperatives; academia, training, and research partners; and public-private partnerships.
• Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, INRA- Meknès, IAV-Hassan II, Direction de l’irrigation et de l’aménagement de l’espace agricole (Meknès).

Countries concerned

• France
• Morocco