Resumen de The water, energy, food nexus

Mariano Cabellos Velasco, Lucila Izquierdo Rocha

• Poverty is a primary issue affecting a high percentage of the world population, has and this implies a major geopolitical component. Poor people wanting to get out of poverty try and find solutions to the problems they suffer: violation of human rights, armed conflicts, disasters, epidemics and pandemics, famine...

  Population growth suggests that migration is likely to stay on top of the global agenda for all countries.

  Poverty manifests through people�s inability to access specific key basic services. Food, water and energy are goods and services to which everybody have access rights, although access to energy has not yet been recognised as a human right.

  This chapter assesses the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the implications of the Sustainable Development Goals regarding eradication of poverty and hunger, human right to water and sanitation and the universal access to suitable, sustainable and modern energy services.

  Achieving universal access to water, energy and food requires a comprehensive analysis, assessing their global interconnections, since different policies in each one of these sectors have impact on the two others.

  Furthermore, different practical situations showing the existing interlinkage between water, energy and food are described