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| + | Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) is a joint international initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Union (EU), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Netherlands, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Announced at World Water Week in 2018 and launched at a signature event by Social Capital Markets in 2019 in San Francisco, | ||
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| + | *Increase food production along the value chain through a more sustainable and efficient usage of water and/or energy. | ||
| + | *Increase income for base of the pyramid women and men in both rural and urban areas. | ||
| + | *Sustainably scale innovators’ solutions to meet the challenges in the WE4F nexus. | ||
| + | *Promote climate and environmental resilience and biodiversity through the sustainable, holistic management of natural resources and ecosystems. | ||
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| + | <h1 style="color:rgb(0, 163, 173);">How WE4F Works </h1> | ||
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| + | The WE4F program capitalized on the learnings from <span class="link3">[[Powering Agriculture|Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development (PAEGC)]]</span> and Securing Water for Food (SWFF) Grand Challenge. The program focused on environmentally sustainable innovations that aimed to improve energy and water efficiency in the agricultural sector. | ||
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| + | The WE4F initiative worked with promising innovations that were identified and nurtured during the PAEGC and SWFF to support their next level of scaling. At the same time, the program opened up new calls for innovations within the water-agriculture-food nexus. WE4F incorporated the Regional Innovation Hub (RIH) model used in PAEGC and the Technical Assistance Facility developed under SWFF. By combining these two successful key programmatic elements together, WE4F’s decentralized approach placed a stronger focus on improving local framework conditions for innovations and facilitating end-user financing. More information can be found on the [[WE4F Resources|WE4F Resource]] section, which provides additional information on partnerships and knowledge products that highlight sustainable gains throughout the project. | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:20, 20 November 2024
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Water & Energy for Food (WE4F): A Grand Challenge for Development
Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) is a joint international initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Union (EU), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Netherlands, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Announced at World Water Week in 2018 and launched at a signature event by Social Capital Markets in 2019 in San Francisco,
WE4F aims to:
- Increase food production along the value chain through a more sustainable and efficient usage of water and/or energy.
- Increase income for base of the pyramid women and men in both rural and urban areas.
- Sustainably scale innovators’ solutions to meet the challenges in the WE4F nexus.
- Promote climate and environmental resilience and biodiversity through the sustainable, holistic management of natural resources and ecosystems.
How WE4F Works
The WE4F program capitalized on the learnings from Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development (PAEGC) and Securing Water for Food (SWFF) Grand Challenge. The program focused on environmentally sustainable innovations that aimed to improve energy and water efficiency in the agricultural sector.
The WE4F initiative worked with promising innovations that were identified and nurtured during the PAEGC and SWFF to support their next level of scaling. At the same time, the program opened up new calls for innovations within the water-agriculture-food nexus. WE4F incorporated the Regional Innovation Hub (RIH) model used in PAEGC and the Technical Assistance Facility developed under SWFF. By combining these two successful key programmatic elements together, WE4F’s decentralized approach placed a stronger focus on improving local framework conditions for innovations and facilitating end-user financing. More information can be found on the WE4F Resource section, which provides additional information on partnerships and knowledge products that highlight sustainable gains throughout the project.
Partners
