Linking climate information to livelihood strategies through ICTs: The role of integrated sustainable livelihoods framework
| Autor: | Michaelina Almaz Yohannis, Margaret Hutchinson, Timothy Mwololo Waema |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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05 social sciences
Climate change Context (language use) Information needs 02 engineering and technology Livelihood Information and Communications Technology Mobile phone 020204 information systems 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Business 0509 other social sciences Rural area 050904 information & library sciences Environmental planning Social capital |
| Zdroj: | 2017 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa). |
| DOI: | 10.23919/istafrica.2017.8102295 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we propose that an Integrated Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (I-SLF), that mainstreams ICT-driven climate information, provides the ideal means by which such information may be leveraged to ensure sustainable enhanced livelihoods. We focus on rural areas of Kitui County, Kenya. Guided by a range of theories such as Gender and Development (GAD), Bourdieu's ideas of social capital, and the Information Needs Assessment Model (INAM), we draw on the emerging variables to demonstrate that, while the SLF may have been formulated in a somewhat different context, its versatility is such that it remains the most appropriate tool for such studies in rural Kenya. Our view is that the continued access to, and use of, ICT tools like the mobile phone and radios offer diverse opportunities for rural communities to use timely and relevant climate information to enhance their livelihoods under the wider rubric of SLF. We hypothesize that rural communities' use ICT tools such as the mobile phones and the community radios to access localized climate information (weather, seasonal forecasts and agro-advisories) and that livelihood assets and livelihood strategies positively change with the increasing availability and use of the ICT-based climate information. The study is motivated by the increasing challenges of climate variability and climate change that affect Sub-Sahara Africa, creating problems such as food insecurity. |
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