Advancing “Healthy Street Food Incentives” to Boost the Safety and Nutritional Balance of Street Food in Sub-Saharan Africa - TCP/RAF/3611

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dc.coverageGhana
dc.coverageUnited Republic of Tanzania
dc.coverageCameroon
dc.coverageCentral African Economic and Monetary Community
dc.coverageDemocratic Republic of the Congo
dc.coverageEthiopia
dc.coverageGuinea-Bissau
dc.coverageKenya
dc.coverageMadagascar
dc.coverageMozambique
dc.coverageRwanda
dc.date2023-04-27T13:27:32Z
dc.date2023-04-27T13:27:32Z
dc.date2020
dc.date2020-09-29T13:34:42.0000000Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-28T01:31:19Z
dc.descriptionStreet 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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dc.identifierhttps://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cb1267en
dc.identifierhttp://www.fao.org/3/cb1267en/cb1267en.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/338843
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherFAO ;
dc.rightsFAO
dc.rightsCC BY NC SA 3.0 IGO
dc.titleAdvancing “Healthy Street Food Incentives” to Boost the Safety and Nutritional Balance of Street Food in Sub-Saharan Africa - TCP/RAF/3611
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