Informal ready-to-eat food vending governance in urban Nigeria: Formal and informal lenses guiding the practice.

ABSTRACT: Informal ready-to-eat food vending is an important, cheap, convenient, accessible and readily available urban food supply sector that has become an increasingly important part of the diets of people in developing cities in Africa and throughout other contexts in the Global South. Over decades, despite challenges associated with health and hygiene, street foods have been informally accepted as part of the urban food supply system, particularly among the urban poor. Despite the importance of street foods to food security and employment needs in urban Nigeria and elsewhere, very little is known about the governance arrangements (whether formal or informal) revolving around their food provisioning practices. The paper explores governance arrangements that steer and shape food provisioning prac

SUBMITTER: Adeosun KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10343139 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature