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

"availability of data and materials the datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available in the github repository https://github com/wycology/wep_threats_management."

"availability of data and materials the datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available in the github repository https://github com/wycology/wep_threats_management."

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by the Center for Development Research – ZEF ethical review committee, Bonn, Germany, and National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI), Nairobi, Kenya under license number NACOSTI/P/20/7052. Prior informed verbal consent was obtained from all participants before their participation in the study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. Competing interests The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) commissioned and administered through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Fund for International Agricultural Research (FIA), grant number: 81235248. The grant supported data collection and writing of the project report. This work was also supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Bonn. The support from the University of Bonn covered the Article Processing Charges by the journal."