Street vendors and regulations

Roever, Sally

doi:10.4324/9780429200724-30

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“…In Mexico, it is reported that those who commute long distances or lack time to prepare food at home consume most food outside their homes ( 56 ). This street food vendor location was also observed in other parts of the country ( 5 , 10 , 29 ) and Africa, although their location is sometimes illegal ( 57 – 60 ). Plate costs in the study remained affordable and attractive to the poor groups compared to the expensive meal of R70–R300 (5–20 USD) from a restaurant ( https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Polokwane ).…”

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Operational Characteristics of Women Street Food Vendors in Rural South Africa

Mahopo

Nesamvuni

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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ObjectiveTo characterize the operations of the street food enterprise in the Vhembe district, focusing on business profile, sold foods, inputs, pricing, record-keeping practices and total running cost.MethodsA descriptive cross-sectional face-to-face study of 511 vendors was done using a structured researcher-administered questionnaire comprising demographic and operational characteristics. Convenience sampling was used to choose the vending sites. Chi-square tests were conducted between four categorical variables (gender, age, marital status and citizenship) and operational characteristics. P-values were considered significant at p < 0.05. However, a Bonferroni adjustment decreased the significant value to p < 0.013.ResultsThe findings highlight the dominance of single middle-aged (35–44) women (63.1%) with some high school education. About 14% migrated from Zimbabwe. Most vendors were owners (86.1%), with 70.0% in business for at least 1–10 years. Food sold included mielie pap (stiff porridge) served with beef or chicken, sometimes with vegetables. Plate prices were R40.00 (2.6 USD) for a full plate and R30.00 (2 USD) for half a plate. The typical street food consumers were government officials, middlemen, and schoolchildren. Social media such as Whatsapp were used to communicate between the street food vendors and customers. The results highlight poor managerial skills as only 15.5% kept records, most of which were sales records (59.5%). On average, street vendors made a monthly profit of R3200.00 (213 USD) while spending R1800.00 (120 USD) on daily running expenses. There were statistically significant variations in some operational characteristics of vendor variables and gender, age, marital status, and citizenship.ConclusionsThere is a need for capital and management for small businesses and food training for rural street food vendors. Therefore, government officials, policymakers, and NGOs could target street vendors to offer training and microfinance to improve their business skills while promoting food safety and consumption of nutritious foods.

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Operational Characteristics of Women Street Food Vendors in Rural South Africa

Mahopo

Nesamvuni

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…Another critique to this separation has come from African anthropologists who have challenged the notion that capitalist free market ‘principles’ should be seen as the model against which to judge other forms of exchange that are very prevalent in the Global South (Guyer, 2015; Hill, 1991) Secondly, despite increased acknowledgement of a problematic binary, the academic literature on marketplaces remains largely divided into two camps: studies of marketplaces classed alternatively as informal or as formal/regulated. The vast majority of the literature is dedicated to the former, with academics and international organisations mainly interested in street vendors’ strategies to survive and resist overregulation and displacement (see, for example, Bhowmik, 2012; Bostic et al, 2016; Brown, 2017; Evers and Seale, 2015; Graaff and Ha, 2015; Habitat, 2015; Kusakabe, 2006; Roever, 2014). These studies are, in the main, based in cities in the Global South or, less often, look at economies of migrant street vendors in Global North cities (Schmoll and Semi, 2013; Semi, 2008).…”

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Contested marketplaces: Retail spaces at the global urban margins

González

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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This paper argues that retail spaces, such as marketplaces, are increasingly becoming sites of urban contestation. The globalisation of retail, online shopping and the redevelopment of cities has pushed marketplaces to the margins, but they still serve millions of people, particularly the urban poor. Concurrently, marketplaces are branded as authentic consumption experiences for tourists and residents. Building on these contradictions, I propose a novel framework with three analytical lenses to reposition marketplaces as marginal city spaces that serve as productive sites for studying urban transformation processes across the Global North and South.

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“…Furthermore, this may increase the rate of compliance amongst vendors. The formalization of informal vendors, according to Roever (2013), may entail having a registered business and paying more taxes and fees, but it also entails exercising fundamental rights, such as the right to work and earn income without being subjected to harassment, discrimination, or degrading treatment [ 26 ].…”

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“…Most trading places are currently not conducive workplaces. Formalization requires having a secure vending site in a favourable position in the city [ 26 ]. The management model illustrated in Figure 1 is used to clean up the current trading locations and distinguish between conducive and non-conducive ones.…”

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Strengthening Urban Informal Trading and Improving the Health of Vendors: An Integrated Management Model

Sepadi

Nkosi

2023

IJERPH

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Context: Within the urban areas, especially the central business districts, informal trading is growing in large numbers, and the informal vendor’s health is also at risk. Despite various frameworks developed for this industry, there are few guidance and implementation strategies on how to accomplish better-managed informal trading, mostly one that entails better occupational settings. Objective: The goal of the proposed model is to improve the working conditions for informal vendors in South Africa by redesigning the current informal trading management approach, thus ensuring a healthy workplace. An evidence-based approach was used to inform the development of this model. Results: This paper outlines the current challenges of informal vendors in urban areas as per the quantitative health risk assessment study that was conducted in 16 markets amongst 617 informal food vendors in the inner city of Johannesburg, South Africa. The study investigated the respiratory health caused by air pollution and associated risk factors. Findings revealed a lack of infrastructure and higher exposure to air pollution, resulting in respiratory ill-health amongst outdoor vendors as compared to indoor vendors. The vendors were more exposed to particulate matter pollution in the spring and winter seasons as compared to the autumn and summer seasons. Furthermore, the upper respiratory symptoms were statistically significant to the type of work location (indoor/outdoor), type of cooking fuel, duration of work, frequency of hand hygiene, and wearing of protective equipment. An informal vendors’ integrated management model that encompasses a specific informal food vendor’s directorate was developed with five main components: the reviewing of informal vendors’ legislation, the restructuring of designated vending or trading sites, space allocation and occupancy, vendors‘ training and skills development, and the sustainability of vending sites and vendors’ health. Discussion and Conclusions: The status revealed the legislation fragmentation of the informal vendors’ activities. The goal of this informal vendors’ “healthy workplace management model” is to inform government responses to the current challenges of the informal vendors’ sector, as well as to guide policies and actions to reduce ill-health in the industry and to avoid disruptions to informal food supply chains, which are critical in the food sector. This model is explained well and documented for easier implementation in local governments. This paper contributes to the extant literature on street vendors and future management strategies of this trade.

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Street vendors and regulations

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Operational Characteristics of Women Street Food Vendors in Rural South Africa

Operational Characteristics of Women Street Food Vendors in Rural South Africa

Contested marketplaces: Retail spaces at the global urban margins

Strengthening Urban Informal Trading and Improving the Health of Vendors: An Integrated Management Model

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