Table 5.

Characteristics of different motivation categories

Motivation category	Characteristics
Environmental	Explanations related to factors such as climate, abundance and scarcity
Economic	Explanations pertaining to factors such as price, market value, and commercial availability
Sociocultural	Explanations related to taste, aroma, flavor, health, ritual, and interest
Agriculture and land use practices	Explanations related to changing agriculture and land use such as cultivation of cash crops, etc.
Human-wildlife conflict	Explanations related to crop depredation by wild animals, attacks by wild animals on humans, etc.