Traditional Climate Early Warning: Enablers and Opportunities for Its Application of Weather Forecasting Practices in Pastoral Kenya
Pastoral communities are confronted with variety of challenges which undermine their resilience to stresses and shocks. For these communities to maintain their coping and adaptive capabilities and assets, accurate early warning information is required to cope with and recover from the adverse natural events witnessed in arid and semi-arid areas. For early warning system to be effective, the community at risk should be actively involved and educated on the risks to ensure there is constant state of preparedness.