Indigenous communities' perceptions reveal threats and management options of wild edible plants in semiarid lands of northwestern Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding how local communities perceive threats and management options of wild edible plants (WEPs) is essential in developing their conservation strategies and action plans. Due to their multiple use values, including nutrition, medicinal, construction, and cultural as well as biotic and abiotic pressures, WEPs are exposed to overexploitation, especially within arid and semiarid lands, and hence the need to manage and conserve them. We demonstrate how an understanding of indigenous communities' perceptions could be achieved through an integrated participatory approach involving focus group discussions (FGDs) and field plot surveys.

Methods

We conducted three FGDs between October 2020 and April 2021 within three community units in northwestern Kenya with diff

SUBMITTER: Oluoch WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10161424 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature