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What Role Can Renewable Energy and Water and Food Securities Play for North Africa and the Middle East ?

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Renewable energy technologies are projected to have substantial growth in the coming decades, especially given the environmental, social and economic drivers observed globally. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region encloses abundant alternative energy sources such as solar, wind and hydropower. The concern is more whether the Arab region will be able to respond to and manage the growth opportunities in this emerging sector. This Policy Brief explores opportunities and challenges for the MENA region to adopt and increase the production of alternative energy in an existing national portfolio and the role this renewable sources of energy can help in water and food securities in remote areas that are not serviced by the electric grid. As such renewable energy can help the MENA region towards its quest to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and in particular Water, Energy, climate goals.

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  • Rabi H. Mohtar, 2017. "What Role Can Renewable Energy and Water and Food Securities Play for North Africa and the Middle East ?," Policy briefs on Agriculture Markets, Policies and Food Security 1704, Policy Center for the New South.
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