NEXUS – a challenging approach? Interrelationships between Food, Natural Resources, Health & Climate Change

Presentation and discussion of the NEXUS assessment

The NEXUS assessment contains the results of a multinational study that analyses the linkage between food systems, natural resources (especially water and biodiversity), health, and climate change. The interrelation of these issues has been studied separately for years. In many cases, research was bogged down, precisely because of this lack of a comprehensive view of a complex subject.

Since 2022, the IPBES platform, an arm of the UN, which produces scientific information on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and involves 147 governments, was commissioned to develop a document that attempts to integrate and review the relevant research in these areas. Walter Pengue, HIAS fellow 2024-25, is one of the main authors of the NEXUS assessment. It was presented in December 2024 in Namibia and released to the public in February 2025. Walter Pengue will present the main NEXUS findings and analyse & discuss them with other experts from this research field.

Participants:

Olaf Kaltmeier, Director of CALAS (Center for Advanced Latin American Studies), Professor of Iberoamerican History at the University of Bielefeld

Walter Pengue, CALAS-HIAS-Fellow, Professor of Ecological Economics and Agroecology at the National University General Sarmiento (UNGS), Director of the Landscape and Environmental Ecology Group (GEPAMA) at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU UBA)

Anette Ruml, Research Fellow at GIGA (German Institute for Global and Area Studies) and at the Leibniz Lab ‘Systemic Sustainability’

Uwe Schneider, University of Hamburg, Group Leader Agricultural and Resource Economics, Co-Chair of the Research Unit of Sustainability and Climate Risks

The event will be held in English.

Digital participation is possible.

Please register for the event via e-mail (event@hias-hamburg.de) and indicate whether you would like to participate in person or digitally.