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

Table 3 Sum of scores and ranks of threat categories from field plot observations (n = 80) in three community units (Nasiger, Atala Kamusio, and Lopur and all combined) in Turkana County, Kenya

Threat categories	Nasiger		Atala Kamusio		Lopur		All communities
	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Overstocking/overgrazing	581	1[2]	635	1[2]	615	4[3]	1831	1[2]
Selective harvesting/overharvesting	471	3[3]	557	2[3]	442	5[2]	1470	2[3]
Invasive species	483	2[1]	332	4[1]	628	2[6]	1443	3[1]
Fuelwood collection/charcoal burning	269	4[4]	448	3[4]	387	6[5]	1104	4[4]
Agricultural expansion	80	9[8]	168	6[6]	658	1[1]	906	5[5]
Uncontrolled fire	105	7[5]	160	7[8]	617	3[4]	882	6[6]
Infrastructural development	168	6[6]	154	8[5]	282	7[7]	604	7[7]
Pests and diseases	197	5[7]	204	5[7]	129	8[8]	530	8[8]
Others	102	8[9]	83	9[9]	82	9[9]	267	9[9]

Ranks drawn from FGDs, after dropping climate change threat (see Table 1), are indicated in brackets [] for comparison

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