Abstract/Description
This paper focuses on understanding the significance, linkage, issues and prospects of food, water, and energy nexus in the context of Pakistan. It aims to facilitate in exploring measures and developing policies that can be adopted to ensure these essential resources’ management, usage and availability while meeting the sustainable development goals. The Pakistan’s data used for GLS was from 1991 to 2020. The results showed that the availability of freshwater withdrawals in Pakistan for agriculture irrigation, population, and agricultural land has a positive and significant impact on the Food Production Index.
Keywords
Food, Water and Energy, Resource Scarcity, Sustainable Growth
Location
MCS-5, AMAN-CED, Second Floor
Session Theme
1C: Competitiveness, Productivity and Growth III
Session Type
Parallel Technical Session
Session Discussant
Ambreen Fatima, Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC), Karachi
Start Date
16-11-2023 2:30 PM
End Date
16-11-2023 4:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Hussaini, M., & Mughal, R. (2023). Resource scarcity and sustainability: Exploring the Water, Energy and Food Nexus. CBER Conference. Retrieved from https://ir.iba.edu.pk/esdcber/2023/program/12
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Resource scarcity and sustainability: Exploring the Water, Energy and Food Nexus
MCS-5, AMAN-CED, Second Floor
This paper focuses on understanding the significance, linkage, issues and prospects of food, water, and energy nexus in the context of Pakistan. It aims to facilitate in exploring measures and developing policies that can be adopted to ensure these essential resources’ management, usage and availability while meeting the sustainable development goals. The Pakistan’s data used for GLS was from 1991 to 2020. The results showed that the availability of freshwater withdrawals in Pakistan for agriculture irrigation, population, and agricultural land has a positive and significant impact on the Food Production Index.
