Adaptive land and water management: Through participation and social learning to hydropolitical decisions

There is no doubt that the Millennium Development Goals and constant media references to a ‘world water crisis’ have lured many from a strategic, large-scale, long-term policy into an emergency, focused (often urban) panic. However, the focus continues to move, e.g. following the large-scale strategic thinking of the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, which emphasises that poverty is a rural issue and that rural societies feed the world.