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Abstract
Governmental and non-governmental organizations have increasingly developed climate services and products to improve safety on Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest and the world’s second largest freshwa...
Highlights
Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest and the world’s second largest freshwater lake with an area of 69,000 square kilometers spanning Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya
The results show that stakeholders of the shores of Lake Victoria speak a multitude of languages
Using interview and survey data as a mixed participatory approach, this study indicates that integrating indigenous knowledge with scientific knowledge is beneficial for livelihood, safety, and wellbeing for broad range of stakeholders operating in Lake Victoria
Summary
Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest and the world’s second largest freshwater lake with an area of 69,000 square kilometers spanning Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. It is a key resource for the people of East Africa. It has the largest freshwater fisheries producing 700,000 to 800,000 metric tons of fish annually, worth USD 350–400 million at the landing points and USD 250 million in export. Lake Victoria in the East Africa sub-region has high occurrence of severe and hazardous weather (Thiery et al, 2016) This is associated with the local circulation patterns due to the differential heating between land and water surfaces and their interactions with the large-scale (synoptic) circulation patterns. Understanding geophysical mechanisms, meteorological services and products, and the significance of local indigenous knowledge is essential to improve the safety of navigation in the lake
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