Middle East Water Challenge
Tom Crisman (USF) speaking at the event.
The UCF Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Program for Strategic Research and Studies (PMBF Program) hosted a panel of experts to discuss the growing issue of sustainable water and growing food insecurity in the Middle East Region. The event entitled The Water-Food Nexus: An Integrated Approach to the Middle East Water Challenge, which is part of the program’s ongoing Regional Resources Initiative, was held on October 11, 2016 at the University of Central Florida.
Hakan Özoğlu, co-Chair of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at UCF.
The event focused on water and food security, which is a growing regional and global concern. Today, the world faces a set of complex interrelated problems around the issues of water, energy, and food. Worldwide energy demands are expected to double by 2050, along with a 50 percent growth in demand for food and water. Understanding the dynamics and linkages between these three sectors is needed to understand potential opportunities, trade-offs, and synergies and to develop integrated solutions to the growing demand for resources.
Featured speakers included, Hakan Özoğlu, co-Chair of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at UCF, Peter Jacques, Managing Executive Editor for the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Michael Carroll, Director of the Hollings Center for International Dialogue, David Dumke, Director of the Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Program for Strategic Research and Studies and Tom Crisman, renowned water expert from the University of South Florida.
The Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Program for Strategic Research and Studies, which is supported by the Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University Annual Fund, was established in 2012. The program is administered by the Department of Political Science in the College of Sciences at the University of Central Florida (UCF). The program sponsors or co-sponsors public presentations by distinguished scholars and practitioners, an annual forum, student fellowships and research activities.
For information regarding future events, please visit the Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Program for Strategic Studies and Research website: https://sciences.ucf.edu/pmbfprogram/