Addressing food security challenges in Lebanon: A Water-Energy-Food-Health Nexus approach
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As Lebanon faces compound challenges including a pandemic, economic, financial and political failure, a looming food security crisis is rapidly approaching. Much of this crisis could be attributed to the lack of long-term planning and investment in the sustainability of the agricultural sector. Another challenge lies in the existing disconnect between decision making between the agricultural sector, and other interconnected sectors, including water, energy, health, economy, among others. This is exacerbated by the lack of integrative national tools that allow for quantifying the trade-offs associated with possible plans and interventions, which could play a role in facilitating a dialogue be-tween multiple sectors and stakeholder groups.
Supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut has worked to-ward 1) identifying and quantifying the critical inter-connections between water, energy, and food sys-tems in Lebanon; 2) developing a framework to as-sess the trade-offs associated with adopting inter-ventions within current water, energy, and agriculture portfolios and practices.