Climate,land, energy and water (CLEW) interlinkages in Burkina Faso: An analysis of agricultural intensification and bioenergy production |
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| Authors: | Sebastian Hermann Manuel Welsch Rebecka Ericsdotter Segerstrom Mark I Howells Charles Young Thomas Alfstad Hans‐Holger Rogner Pasquale Steduto |
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| Institution: | 1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Industrial Engineering and Management, Division of Energy Systems Analysis, , Stockholm, Sweden;2. Stockholm Environment Institute, , Sommerville, United States;3. International Atomic Energy Agency, Department of Nuclear Energy, , Vienna, Austria;4. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, , Rome, Italy |
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| Abstract: | This paper discusses climate, land, energy and water (CLEW) interactions in Burkina Faso. It shows that integrated assessments of resource use at the national level can provide important insights and benefits, especially for a resource constrained least developed country. Agricultural policy is shown to have strong implications for energy use, whereas energy policies are found to be strongly interrelated with water constraints. Without an integrated and coordinated approach, strategy and policy formulation efforts to increase energy, food and water security could become both incoherent and counter‐productive. |
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| Keywords: | Integrated resource assessment energy land use water climate resource modelling |
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