| Data Source | Indigenous Knowledge Practices | ||
| Early Warning Systems | Rain-Water Harvesting | Agricultural Practices | |
| | Awareness of signs for drought from traditional perspective | Digging of wells to help with watering small gardens | Use of Drought tolerant recycled seeds and avoiding deforestation |
| | Nothing pronounced | Our community is near the lake. So indigenous knowledge has been so much on doing gardening along the lake shores | Use of basins to preserve water for the seed |
| | We no longer use much of traditional interpretations of signs because they are mostly not dependable | Use of Weir dam | Planting of more trees Contour ploughing Conservation Farming |
| | Use of signs such as Increase in wild fruits eg masuku and an influx of bird type not seen in years. | Having small dams around our communities for water harvesting
| Use of natural herbs in treating livestock; Use of aloe-vera plant; Tree planting; Traditional seed selection for next agro season. |
| | Nothing much apart from learning interpretation of some signs for rains or drought | Building weir dams using sand bags | Use of livestock dung/droppings for soil improvement; Practicing Crop Rotation; Cash crop planting such as groundnuts, sunflower and cotton; Planting early Maturing varieties of seed. |
| | We rely on news by Ministry of Agriculture via Radio; We no longer use much of traditional interpretations of signs because they are mostly not dependable. | We have no water harvesting techniques
| Use of Ash to spread in the fields; Use of anthills to spread in fields; Conservation Farming and use of drought tolerant sees such as millet/sorghum. |