Consumers' Attitudes towards Edible Wild Plants: A Case Study of Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Table 8

Summary of respondents’ concern towards consumption and harvest of edible wild plants.

	Group I		Group II		Group III
Categories	Subcategories	Number	Subcategories	Number	Subcategories	Number
	Easy to buy	2	Difficulty in availability	8	Difficulty in availability	2
	Delicious and fresh to be in the production sites	7	Somewhat prepared or cooked for sales due to the difficulty of cooking	4	We like wild edible plants for they are natural food	5
Consumption/consumers	Sometimes expensive	1	Receive a lot from relatives or friends	4
	Safe food	1	We like wild edible plants and hope to maintain the production	3
			Do not eat	2
			Variety became less	1	Receive a lot from relatives or friends	4
	Enjoy collecting	1	Wish to harvest and cook by himself, however, lacks information of growth of wild edible plant	2	Construction of golf courses and houses should be limited in the forested mountains	1
Harvest /collectors	The number is decreasing with a lot of outsiders	4	Access to the mountain should be legally supported	3	Properly manage the forest in order to get access to it	1
	Should be easier to sell harvested wild edible plant	3	Should be collected in a sustainable way	6
	Food bank for emergency, for example, starvation or wars	1	Should be revaluated as part of traditional culture and passed down to next generation	1
Others	Use abandoned field to cultivate wild edible plant	1
		21		34		9