Interactive Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Security Index

Henry H. Willis, David G. Groves, Jeanne S. Ringel, Zhimin Mao, Shira Efron, Michele Abbott, Zohan Hasan Tariq, Michael W. Robbins

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Includes Interactive Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Security Index: Updates as of 2023; Developing the Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Security Index: Toward a Global Standardized, Quantitative, and Transparent Resource Assessment

More than 2 billion people around the world, especially in developing countries, do not have access to high-quality services related to food, water, and energy. To provide information to development agencies and efforts focused on food, water, and energy resources, RAND Corporation researchers developed the Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Index. The index can be accessed online through an interactive RAND website that allows users to explore the data through maps and charts.

The FEW Index, first published in 2016, provides a standardized, quantitative, and transparent estimation of the nexus between food, energy, and water that can easily be used by policymakers, the development community, scientists, and members of the public interested in improving human development worldwide. A 2023 update adds data from 2015 through 2019 and incorporates a time-series feature. The update also adds two visualizations that display the predicted trends in the FEW Index and its constituent subindexes over time, by country. Users can also access technical documentation and information about the 2023 update to the index.

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Willis, Henry H., David G. Groves, Jeanne S. Ringel, Zhimin Mao, Shira Efron, Michele Abbott, Zohan Hasan Tariq, and Michael W. Robbins, Interactive Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Security Index, RAND Corporation, TL-A2942-1, 2024. As of September 11, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TLA2942-1.html
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Willis, Henry H., David G. Groves, Jeanne S. Ringel, Zhimin Mao, Shira Efron, Michele Abbott, Zohan Hasan Tariq, and Michael W. Robbins, Interactive Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Security Index. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2024. https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TLA2942-1.html.
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