Provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in Nigeria : a practice-based perspective on informal ready-to-eat food vending

In most developing countries’ cities, informal ready-to-eat food vending is very prominent and considered the most commonly used food supply channel, particularly among the poor (Fellows et al., 2012). Informal ready-to-eat food vending is an important system of food provision in developing countrie...

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Autor principal: Adeosun, Kehinde Paul
Formato: Tesis
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wageningen University & Research 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131816
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description In most developing countries’ cities, informal ready-to-eat food vending is very prominent and considered the most commonly used food supply channel, particularly among the poor (Fellows et al., 2012). Informal ready-to-eat food vending is an important system of food provision in developing countries that can play a role in access to healthy and diverse ready-to-eat foods among different socio-economic groups (Patel, 2014). It is the cheapest, most convenient, and most available food supply channel and one that fits best into the everyday life of urban dwellers. Informal ready-to-eat foods are receiving increasingly high acceptance, patronage, or engagement among the urban poor because they are affordable and convenient (Mathye and Maliwichi, 2015). Moreover, this system of food provisioning is expanding as the urban population in developing countries keeps on increasing through urbanization. Most urban populace cannot do without the presence of food vending outlets as these are the most available, affordable, and accessible ready-to-eat food supply channel for them. However, according to existing literature, this food supply channel is inadequate in terms of quantity and quality. For example, shortcomings were found in terms of poor hygiene practices and the supply of food that is of low nutritional quality (Mwangi et al., 2002; Story, 2008; Muyanja et al., 2011; Lucan et al., 2014; Kolady et al., 2020). This thesis, therefore, focuses on understanding everyday out of-home food vending and consumption practices among the urban poor and how the health and diversity of supplied food can be improved.
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spelling CGSpace1318162024-11-07T09:55:32Z Provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in Nigeria : a practice-based perspective on informal ready-to-eat food vending Adeosun, Kehinde Paul urban areas vending machines developing countries food access In most developing countries’ cities, informal ready-to-eat food vending is very prominent and considered the most commonly used food supply channel, particularly among the poor (Fellows et al., 2012). Informal ready-to-eat food vending is an important system of food provision in developing countries that can play a role in access to healthy and diverse ready-to-eat foods among different socio-economic groups (Patel, 2014). It is the cheapest, most convenient, and most available food supply channel and one that fits best into the everyday life of urban dwellers. Informal ready-to-eat foods are receiving increasingly high acceptance, patronage, or engagement among the urban poor because they are affordable and convenient (Mathye and Maliwichi, 2015). Moreover, this system of food provisioning is expanding as the urban population in developing countries keeps on increasing through urbanization. Most urban populace cannot do without the presence of food vending outlets as these are the most available, affordable, and accessible ready-to-eat food supply channel for them. However, according to existing literature, this food supply channel is inadequate in terms of quantity and quality. For example, shortcomings were found in terms of poor hygiene practices and the supply of food that is of low nutritional quality (Mwangi et al., 2002; Story, 2008; Muyanja et al., 2011; Lucan et al., 2014; Kolady et al., 2020). This thesis, therefore, focuses on understanding everyday out of-home food vending and consumption practices among the urban poor and how the health and diversity of supplied food can be improved. 2023-07-03 2023-09-08T20:22:28Z 2023-09-08T20:22:28Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131816 en Open Access application/pdf Wageningen University & Research Adeosun, Kehinde Paul. 2023. Provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in Nigeria : a practice-based perspective on informal ready-to-eat food vending. Wageningen University.
spellingShingle urban areas
vending machines
developing countries
food access
Adeosun, Kehinde Paul
Provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in Nigeria : a practice-based perspective on informal ready-to-eat food vending
title Provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in Nigeria : a practice-based perspective on informal ready-to-eat food vending
title_full Provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in Nigeria : a practice-based perspective on informal ready-to-eat food vending
title_fullStr Provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in Nigeria : a practice-based perspective on informal ready-to-eat food vending
title_full_unstemmed Provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in Nigeria : a practice-based perspective on informal ready-to-eat food vending
title_short Provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in Nigeria : a practice-based perspective on informal ready-to-eat food vending
title_sort provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in nigeria a practice based perspective on informal ready to eat food vending
topic urban areas
vending machines
developing countries
food access
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131816
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