Provides functions for analysing Water-Energy-Food-Nutrient-Carbon (WEFNC) nexus interactions in agricultural systems. The package provides five core modules and a nexus integration layer:

Water

Water use efficiency (WUE), water productivity (WP), water footprint (WF) with green/blue/grey components, irrigation efficiency, crop water stress index (CWSI), and crop water productivity (CWP).

Energy

Energy budgeting including input-output analysis, energy use efficiency (EUE), energy return on investment (EROI), energy productivity (EP), net energy (NE), specific energy, and energy profitability.

Food

Food productivity indices, harvest index (HI), land equivalent ratio (LER), system productivity index (SPI), caloric and protein yield, and production efficiency index (PEI).

Nutrient

Nutrient use efficiency (NUE) metrics including agronomic efficiency (AE), physiological efficiency (PE), recovery efficiency (RE), partial factor productivity (PFP), internal utilization efficiency (IUE), and nutrient harvest index (NHI).

Carbon

Carbon footprint (CF) with source-wise breakdown, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission estimation, soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, carbon sequestration rate (CSR), and global warming potential (GWP) using IPCC AR6 values.

Author

Maintainer: Lalit Kumar Rolaniya lalitrolaniya@gmail.com (ORCID)

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