The ‘Food-Energy-Water’ Nexus in Central Asia: Regional Implications of and the International Response to the Crises in Tajikistan Cover Image

The ‘Food-Energy-Water’ Nexus in Central Asia: Regional Implications of and the International Response to the Crises in Tajikistan
The ‘Food-Energy-Water’ Nexus in Central Asia: Regional Implications of and the International Response to the Crises in Tajikistan

Author(s): Matteo Fumagalli
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Food-Energy-Water’ Nexus in Central Asia: Regional Implications ; International Response ; Crises in Tajikistan

Summary/Abstract: The “European Central Asia Monitoring” project (EUCAM) was set up in 2008 by the two think tanks FRIDE and CEPS. This paper provides an evaluation of the current food security crisis in Central Asia and links it to the broader water crisis experienced by Central and South Asia forming an ‘energy-water-food security nexus’. Although all the Central Asian republics are to varying extents affected by growing fuel and goods prices, it is Tajikistan that has experienced the most acute situation, which has plunged about a fourth of the population (2 million) in a food security crisis.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 1-12
  • Page Range: 001-008
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English