Evaluating the Food Profile in Qatar within the Energy–Water–Food Nexus Approach

Finding a balance between the capacity for production and the rising demand for food is the first step toward achieving food security. To achieve sustainable development on a national scale, decision-makers must use an energy, water, and food nexus approach that considers the relationships and interactions among these three resources as well as the synergies and trade-offs that result from the way they are handled. Therefore, this paper evaluates the Energy–Water–Food Nexus Profile of Qatar at a superstructural level by applying the Business-As-Usual (BAU) storyline; thus, trends of past data have been used to provide future projections to 2050 using the statistical prediction tools such as the compound annual growth rates of food demand ([Formula: see text]), international supply ([Formula: see text]), and the average local food supply change factor ([Formula: see text]). Once the BAU storyline has been generated, the source-to-demand correlations have been defined for each food category. Such correlations include the annual and average ratios of the local food supply to the total demand (i.e., [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]) and the ratios of the local food supply to the international supply (i.e., [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]). In addition, as an effort to identify the required action to reach food self-sustainability, the additional local food supply to achieve ([Formula: see text] and its ratio to the local demand ([Formula: see text]) have been defined. The highest average ratio of the local food supply to the total demand ([Formula: see text]) was found for the meat category, which was estimated to be 48.3%. Finally, to evaluate the feasibility of attaining food self-sustainability in Qatar, the water consumption ([Formula: see text]) and its corresponding required energy for each food category have been estimated.