Presentation and discussion of the NEXUS assessment
The NEXUS assessment contains the results of a multinational study that analyses the linkage between food systems, natural resources (especially water and biodiversity), health, and climate change. The interrelation of these issues has been studied separately for years. In many cases, research was bogged down, precisely because of this lack of a comprehensive view of a complex subject.
Since 2022, the IPBES platform, an arm of the UN, which produces scientific information on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and involves 147 governments, was commissioned to develop a document that attempts to integrate and review the relevant research in these areas. Walter Pengue, HIAS fellow 2024-25, is one of the main authors of the NEXUS assessment. It was presented in December 2024 in Namibia and released to the public in February 2025. Walter Pengue will present the main NEXUS findings and analyse & discuss them with other experts from this research field.
Participants:
Walter Pengue, Full Professor of Ecological Economics and Agroecology at the National University General Sarmiento (UNGS) and Director of the Landscape and Environmental Ecology Group (GEPAMA) at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU UBA)
Anette Ruml, Research Fellow at GIGA
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The event will be held in English.
Topic of interest to: Researchers/persons concerned with the issues of natural resources, agriculture, food, health, climate change, water, land use change, migration, economics, social impacts, environmental impacts, socio-environmental conflicts.
Various disciplines: agronomy, sociology, political ecology, political science, environmental science, international politics, nutrition, economics, finance.
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