Food security is generally assured when water, energy and arable land are abundant, but it becomes vulnerable with shortages in these required resources.  An integrated W-E-F Nexus approach promises improved resource efficiencies and food security, new business opportunities, and more coherent resource and environmental management.  In addition, integrated planning is needed because energy systems are shifting to distributed renewable energy production.  This shift generates new demands for data, and opportunities for integrating energy, water and food information and infrastructure systems. This session explores ways to apply an integrated data and science approach to obtain co-benefits for the food, energy and water sectors. 

Papers are sought which show how data, science, artificial intelligence, models, scenarios and evidence-based policies have been, or can be, applied to W-E-F Nexus issues and how they have led to benefits such as more efficient resource use and reduced environmental impacts.