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ProjectAdvancing “Healthy Street Food Incentives” to Boost the Safety and Nutritional Balance of Street Food in Sub-Saharan Africa - TCP/RAF/3611 2020
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No results found.Street food vendors (SFVs) have proliferated in the last three and a half decades throughout Africa, owing to ongoing urbanization. On the one hand, this type of work provides a regular source of income for millions of people (mostly women) with limited access to the formal wage labour market; on the other hand, it represents a significant part of the daily diet for millions of low and middle-income urban dwellers who spend long hours out of the house. Despite its important role in securing food and reducing poverty in urban areas across Africa, the sector is largely affected by food safety issues, and it is characterized by an overwhelming presence of carbohydrate, protein, and fat-rich food, while micronutrient-rich foods are largely neglected. Against this background, the project aimed to introduce “Healthy Street Food Incentives” (HSFI), a financially self-sustainable strategy aimed at: i) making street food safer through a decentralized, participatory customer-led monitoring, enabling targeted inspections and rewards to safer vendors; and ii) making street food nutritionally more balanced through a Lottery or Scratch & Win that favours vendors and consumers who serve and eat more fruit. The pilot of the plan was to be implemented in Accra (Ghana) and Dar es Salaam (the United Republic of Tanzania); while a region-wide baseline study on the current situation of the street food sector would be carried out in 10 Low-Income-Food-Deprived Countries in Africa ([LIFDCs] Ethiopia, Rwanda, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Madagascar, Mozambique, Kenya, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo), in order to assess the feasibility of scaling up the plan, and to fine-tune it on the basis of each specific context. -
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Book (stand-alone)PROMISES AND CHALLENGES of the informal food sector in developing countries 2007
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This publication provides an overview of recent literature on the potential of the informal food sector (IFS) to facilitate an affordable supply of food to urban areas and generate income for low-income households. The goal is to identify global patterns, topics for further research, and policy suggestions. It also draws on discussions made by an international community of development practitioners and scholars in the e-mail conference on the IFS organized by FAO and the Un iversity of Bologna in May 2006. Some case studies are discussed as examples of good practices in various countries.
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