A more comprehensive background on the design and principles behind the RE4AFAGRI platform is found in Falchetta, G., Adeleke, A., Awais, M., Byers, E., Copinschi, P., Duby, S., ... & Hafner, M. (2022). A renewable energy-centred research agenda for planning and financing Nexus development objectives in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Energy Strategy Reviews, 43, 100922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2022.100922
WaterCROP
WaterCROP is an evapotranspiration model to estimate the crop water demand by source (rainfall plus irrigation) as a function of the soil moisture available in the soil and the potential for irrigation expansion (by source, surface water or groundwater bodies) based on current yield gap.
More information:
Tuninetti, M., Tamea, S., D'Odorico, P., Laio, F., & Ridolfi, L. (2015). Global sensitivity of high‐resolution estimates of crop water footprint. Water Resources Research, 51(10), 8257-8272. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017148
MLED
M-LED is a Multi-sectoral Latent Electricity Demand geospatial data processing platform to estimate electricity demand in communities that live in energy poverty. The platform leverages big data and bottom-up energy modelling to represent the potential electricity demand with high spatio-temporal and sectoral granularity, with specific attention to the implications for water-energy-agriculture-development interlinkages.
More information: Falchetta, G., Stevanato, N., Moner-Girona, M., Mazzoni, D., Colombo, E., & Hafner, M. (2021). The M-LED platform: advancing electricity demand assessment for communities living in energy poverty. Environmental Research Letters, 16(7), 074038. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0cab
OnSSET
OnSSET (the Open Source Spatial Electrification Tool) is a GIS based optimization tool that has been developed to support electrification planning and decision making for the achievement of energy access goals in currently unserved locations.
More information: Mentis, D., Howells, M., Rogner, H., Korkovelos, A., Arderne, C., Zepeda, E., ... & Scholtz, E. (2017). Lighting the World: the first application of an open source, spatial electrification tool (OnSSET) on Sub-Saharan Africa. Environmental Research Letters, 12(8), 085003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7b29
NEST
NEST (The NExus Solutions Tool) is a modeling platform that integrates multi-scale energy–water–land resource optimization with distributed hydrological modeling, providing insights into the vulnerability of water, energy and land resources to future socioeconomic and climatic change and how multi-sectoral policies, technological solutions and investments can improve the resilience and sustainability of transformation pathways while avoiding counterproductive interactions among sectors.
More information: Vinca, A., Parkinson, S., Byers, E., Burek, P., Khan, Z., Krey, V., ... & Riahi, K. (2020). The NExus Solutions Tool (NEST) v1. 0: an open platform for optimizing multi-scale energy–water–land system transformations. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(3), 1095-1121. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1095-2020