Why they eat, what they eat: patterns of wild edible plants consumption in a tribal area of Western Himalaya

Table 8 Responses under different motivation categories that guide WEP use

Motivation category	Trends for consumption
	Continuing		Declining		Increasing		Total
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Environmental	42	3.13	112	8.35	0	0	154	11.48
Economic	31	2.31	7	0.52	0	0	38	2.83
Sociocultural	670	49.96	368	27.44	69	5.15	1107	82.55
Agriculture and land use changes	0	0	5	0.37	0	0	5	0.37
Human-wildlife conflict	0	0	37	2.76	0	0	37	2.76
Total	743	55.41	529	39.45	69	5.15	1341	100.00

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