Integrated management of water, energy, and food resources is critical for achieving sustainability under rising environmental and demographic pressures, yet existing approaches either lack computational efficiency for real-time decision support or fail to capture the full complexity of sectoral interdependencies. This study presents a Water Energy Food Nexus Machine Learning based surrogate Model (WEFN-MLM). The key innovation lies in training a Random Forest algorithm on comprehensive multi-objective optimization outputs from thousands of diverse scenarios, enabling the model to learn complex nonlinear interdependencies and resource trade-offs without requiring explicit mathematical formulation of system relationships. A high-resolution Multi-Objective Optimization WEFN model (MOO-WEFN) is used to generate the training dataset, incorporating constraints for resource availability, caloric requirements, and environmental thresholds. The trained model demonstrates high predictive accuracy, with most output variables achieving R² values above 0.90 and cosine similarity scores near 1.0. Normalized absolute error analysis reveals strong performance consistency across system-level metrics, with select deviations in sector-specific outputs, particularly those highly sensitive to scenario dynamics or underrepresented in the training space. Compared to traditional optimization, the surrogate model achieves up to a 300,000-fold reduction in computation time. The surrogate model is validated using a randomly generated test set of scenarios that enables direct comparison between surrogate predictions and optimization results. The results highlight the model’s effectiveness for high-resolution nexus analysis and scenario exploration, while also acknowledging trade-offs between speed and precision. Findings underscore the importance of diverse training scenarios, careful application boundaries, and integration with policy processes to support resilient resource planning.
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