Street Foods Urban Food and Employment in Developing Countries

by Tinker, Irene

• ISBN13: 9780195117110
• ISBN10: 0195117115
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

"Street foods," the term coined by Irene Tinker for the Equity Policy Center's action-research project, defines the study of all meals, snacks, and sweets currently sold on the streets of the world for immediate consumption. The culmination of fifteen years of research in provincial cities in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, and Senegal, Street Foods is the first empirical study of those who make, sell, and eat these foods. The project detailed in this book was and will be a means to affect change on both micro and macro levels: the findings were utilized to improve the income of the vendors themselves and the safety of the food they sold, and to cause makers of public policy to recognize the value of this informal sector--instead of trying to restrict its trade. The accumulated power of the Street Food Project's data brings new insights to the nature of microenterprises, the interventions that truly help improve income and food safety, and the gender aspects of the street food trade. Challenging conventional wisdom about the informal sector and assumptions in development theory about women, Street Foods will reframe the major debates shaping research and aid policies for poor, small-scale entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Author Biography

Irene Tinker, a professor at the University of California

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Organization of the Book	p. 5
Policy Origins of the EPOC Project	p. 6
Designing the Study	p. 9
Refining the Design	p. 14
Cities and Their Street Foods	p. 19
Bogor, Indonesia	p. 23
Local Context	p. 23
Street Foods in Bogor	p. 26
The IPB Streetfood Project	p. 35
Impact of the Two Studies	p. 40
Iloilo, Philippines	p. 43
Local Context	p. 43
The Survey	p. 46
Survival of Street Food Enterprises	p. 55
Street Food Policies in Manila	p. 56
Chonburi, Thailand	p. 61
Local Context	p. 61
The Street Project with CUSRI	p. 63
Distinctly Thai Aspects	p. 69
Manikganj, Bangladesh	p. 75
Local Context	p. 75
Street Foods in a Poor Country	p. 80
Interventions	p. 89
Minia, Egypt	p. 93
Local Context	p. 93
Street Foods in Minia	p. 95
The Street Foods Vendors Organization	p. 102
A Model for Street Vendors	p. 110
Ziguinchor, Senegal	p. 113
Local Context	p. 113
The Survey	p. 116
National Policy and Local Vendors	p. 121
Ile-Ife, Nigeria	p. 125
Local Context	p. 125
Street Foods in Ife	p. 128
Government versus the Street Vendors	p. 134
Helping Street Food Vendors in Ife, Ibadan, and Lagos	p. 137
The Street Food Project: Influencing Development Theory and Practice	p. 147
Vendors and the Economics of Their Enterprises	p. 149
Size and Seasonality of the Trade	p. 149
Involvement of Women and Family	p. 152
Basic Data on Vendors	p. 155
Running a Street Food Enterprise	p. 162
Economics of the Street Food Trade	p. 166
Street Food Vending as a Microenterprise	p. 176
Foods on the Street and the People Who Eat Them	p. 177
Varieties and Attributes of Foods Sold on the Street	p. 178
Demand for Street Foods	p. 183
But Is It Nutritious?	p. 187
Is It Safe?	p. 189
Policy Shifts	p. 194
Implications for Research, Planning, and Policy	p. 196
Improving Microenterprises	p. 198
Macro-Discourses and Policy	p. 203
Influencing Theory and Practice	p. 210
Afterword: Putting It All Together	p. 212
The Future of the Street Food Trade	p. 215
Bon Appetit	p. 216
Notes	p. 217
Glossary	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 231
Index of Recipes	p. 245
General Index	p. 246
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