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Table 3 Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis for the establishment of a local development programme involving WFP

From: Wild food plants and minor crops in the Ripollès district (Catalonia, Iberian Peninsula): potentialities for developing a local production, consumption and exchange program

Element

Positive

Negative

Internal (to the study area)

Strengths

Weaknesses

- Knowledge and use of WEP still present in the region.

- Relatively low costs of production

- Complements diet.

- Revalorization of WEP use in local restaurants, rural tourism and others.

- Cooperation amongst residents.

- Conservation and development of biocultural diversity.

- Proximity products’ local fairs.

- Demographic decrease towards urban areas.

- Geographical dispersion.

- Abandonment of farms.

- Lack of permanent jobs.

- Overexploitation of certain species (e.g., Molopospermum peloponnesiacum).

External

Opportunities

Threats

- Revalorization of WEP use on a regional scale.

- Fairs at the regional/national level.

- Regulatory systems and certifications such as designations of origin, geographical indications and traditional specialities guaranteed.

- Public and private programmes for recovering old varieties and WEP use

- Replanting of overexploited species along with study of germination and cultivation for conservation purposes.

- Short optimal season, with harsh weather during winter.

- Random cases of poisoning.

- Changes in gastronomic trends.