Understanding the water energy food nexus can be useful for identifying synergistic strategies for climate change adaptation. In many developing countries, the questions of adaptation are salient as there is insufficient understanding of changes needed for water use and management, agriculture and cropping patterns, siting of new developments, and operation of municipal and rural systems. While the water-energy-food nexus has been examined to determine trade-offs and synergies for developing and operating built-infrastructure, there has been relatively less attention on exploring how an understanding of the nexus can be specifically leveraged for determining adaptation pathways that may have potentially lower costs and higher benefits. This session invites contributions that address such questions using various methods, including integrated multi-sector assessment modelling and optimization, systems simulations, agent-based modelling, and mixed methods, employing quantitative and qualitative approaches across different spatial scales.