While water–energy–food (WEF) nexus is a major livelihood sources for local community, its security issues grow continually and there is limited information on how nexus resource management is effective at delivering livelihoods and food security. These difficulties are related to the lack of local community knowledge of the use and exploitation of water, energy, and food resources; this limited awareness leads to trade‐offs, especially in local and marginalized areas. On the basis of data collected from a local community through a survey‐based approach, this study examines local community perception of nexus resources and their contribution to livelihoods. The results indicate that community perceptions of nexus resources can be understood through social, natural, economic, human, physical, and environmental livelihood indicators. According to our findings, the perception of nexus resources is based on the benefits of individual resources rather than their interlinkages. This could be the result of community perceptions of a particular nexus resource from three nexus sector, that is, food. Food is the center of nexus resources for the community in the study area. This indicates, that there is a missing link between cross‐sectorial resource utilization and management, and full‐scale adoption of the WEF nexus to enhance living conditions. Our findings suggest that there is a low understanding of WEF nexus resource use and management, and the livelihood benefit of individual nexus resources is the primary focus in the studied community. From these results, we recommend more action to be taken by the government and other stakeholders to improve the local community perception of nexus resources for their livelihoods.

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当地社区对生计与水，能源，食物关系的认识：关于粮食安全的观点

尽管水，能源，食品（WEF）的联系是当地社区的主要生计来源，但其安全问题持续增长，关于联系资源管理如何有效实现生计和粮食安全的信息有限。这些困难与当地社区对水，能源和粮食资源的使用和开发缺乏了解有关；这种有限的意识导致了权衡，尤其是在本地和边缘化地区。基于一项基于调查的方法从本地社区收集的数据，本研究调查了本地社区对联系资源及其对生计的贡献的认识。结果表明，可以通过社会，自然，经济，人类，自然和环境生计指标来理解社区对联系资源的看法。根据我们的发现，对链接资源的感知是基于单个资源的利益，而不是其相互联系。这可能是社区对来自三个联系部门（即食物）的特定联系资源的看法的结果。食物是研究区域社区的联系资源的中心。这表明，跨部门资源的利用和管理与WEF关系的全面采用以改善生活条件之间缺少联系。我们的发现表明，对WEF链接资源的使用和管理了解不足，个人链接资源的生计利益是研究社区的主要关注点。根据这些结果，