The ICID Vision 2030 and Action Plan 2017–2021

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AbstractWater, soil, energy and food have been the core values for the existence of human beings as well as other creatures living in the world from the beginning of human history and will increasingly be significant concerns in the future together with environmental issues and climate change due to the rapid growth in the world population, urbanization, industry and poor management of those core needs. Poverty and hunger should be the most important concerns for all humanity to tackle in this developing and changing world, but how? Water, as the key natural resource, is one of the essential inputs to all economic, social and environmental processes in tackling poverty and hunger. The role of agricultural water management, mainly irrigation, in ensuring food security, hence tackling poverty and hunger, is seemingly going to be at the centre of solution proposals. There are actually many scientifically and technologically developed instruments available in this world to solve poverty and hunger. What is needed is action. Poverty and hunger could be tackled with a broader vision and a well‐defined mission together with a detailed action plan. The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), as one of the leading global professional organizations, has initiated more active support for ‘A Water‐Secure World and Free of Poverty and Hunger'. ‘A Road Map to ICID Vision 2030' is a document, developed over past 2 years, that presents an action plan to move towards a water‐secure world free of poverty and hunger through sustainable rural development. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.