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Advanced Training in Agricultural Economics & Environment - Water-Energy-Food Nexus

From

07
9:00 am December 2016

To

10
5:00 pm December 2016

OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

The course will cover state, national and international water, energy and food securities and the interlinkages that exist between these resources. It will explore a quantitative framework to develop and assess sustainable tradeoffs of these resources. It will include lectures and hands on laboratory. The course is designed to be intellectually stimulating by learners from various disciplines within the natural resources areas.

Objectives :

• Describe the global risks and the how the nexus can drive sustainability of the resources management and allocation;
• Quantify the inter-linkages of the Water, Energy, Food systems;
• Identify a nexus hot spot for a specific condition;
• Apply the Nexus Tool to simulate and conduct tradeoff analysis for a scenario of interest.

Speakers
Rabi Mohtar
Senior Fellow
Rabi H. Mohtar is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut, who focuses on Civil and Biological/Agricultural Engineering, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Water-Energy-Food Nexus, Water Security and Climate Change. He is also Professor at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas and Adjunct Professor at Purdue University. He is the Founding Director of Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) a member of Qatar Foundation, Research and Development and the Founding Director Strategic Projects at Qatar Foundation Research and Development. He was also the inaugural Director of the Global Engineering Programs at Purdue Uni ...