Table 5 Priority ranking on recorded threatening factors to underutilized wild edible plants
Threatening factors | 10 Key informants | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
L1 | L2 | L3 | M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | H1 | H2 | H3 | Total | Rank | |
Agricultural expansion | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 54 | 1st |
Fuel wood harvest | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 38 | 3rd |
Selective harvesting | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 34 | 4th |
Over-grazing/stocking | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 42 | 2nd |
Urbanization | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7th |
Fire | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 5th |
Other natural disasters | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 6th |