Where are the causes?

Hi Simon

I like very much the idea of understanding the linkages between W and P and the five cases cover the most of options. There are two points I want to put on the table when thinking in using such classification for the identification of interventions. The first deals with the causes of poverty. What is not clear yet, even the classification is the structural causes of poverty behind those scenarios. I think that the relationship of poor people and water status is a non intended consequence of more structural factors, the most rooted in historical reasons for the distribution and access to resources en general, to land in the particular case of agriculture. Poor people have been relegated by society to the corners of productive areas making them prone to lack of water, excess, extreme events, etc, but why they are poor is not precisely due to water in itself. If we want to make interventions or suggest the most appropriate interventions to reduce poverty, they wont be on modifiying water current condition rather the structural issues leading population to poverty.
The second point is when we want to map those five types in the space. All of them happend everywhere, at least in the Andes, in part due to the complex spatial variability. So figuring out where to implement interventoins that modify current conditions is a paramount task. Identification of particular cases have to go further in detail, below the basin and regional level we BFPs are addressing. I know these are arguable arguments but they are in part the trouble every time we think in potential interventions to reduce poverty associated to water.

I am redy to clarifications, discussion.

Jorge Rubiano