Provisional findings on linking climate information to livelihood strategies through ICTs among rural women in Kitui County, Kenya

摘要

This paper presents provisional findings on how ICT may be used to link climate information to livelihood strategies among rural women in Kitui County, Kenya. The paper is based on the results of a scoping study undertaken in the same place for an on-going PhD research that focuses on climate change awareness among rural Kenyans, while employing empirical methods of data collection and analysis. While the sample size for the scoping study was small (20 respondents), the relevance of the subject matter and the consistency of the findings collectively point to a gap in the general research area and offers provisional findings that we offer for scrutiny in this article. Both the PhD project and the scoping study were motivated by the increasing challenges of climate variability and change that affect Sub-Sahara Africa, creating problems such as food insecurity.