| Sumario: | This document aims at providing the necessary data, which are in this case Sustainable Land
Management (SLM) practices, as preparation for a still to-be-determined Decision Support System (DSS)
regarding water-energy-food-ecosystem in Central Asia through the NEXUS gains initiative of CGIAR.
There are five main chapters to this document:
1. The goals and impacts of the CGIAR nexus initiative are briefly summarized. During this, the
relations to DSS are described.
2. A brief study on DSS literature to find insights on what options there are, what data is required,
and which users are benefitted. This offers support for the decision on a DSS, that is ought to be
made in the future. Additionally, it provides a section on agri-DSSs.
3. A brief study on the nexus to understand which characteristics of a SLM are relevant to the
nexus hence relevant for a DSS. A separate section is dedicated to each aspect of the nexus.
4. A synthesis of the nexus and DSS results in the rationale of a template that is useful for a
potential future DSS specified on the nexus. In other words, this chapter explains why and how
certain information of SLMs should be captured.
5. The template
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