ABOUT STREET FOOD
Let's face it, food is the single most important commodity in any of our shopping baskets and street food forms a significant chunk thereof.
For instance, in Accra (Ghana), a study found that the poorest residents spend up to 40% of their food budget and 25% of their total spending budget on street food.
Street food is the product of crowded cities and means different things to different people, be it the schoolchildren on their way to school or the holidaymaker visiting a big city or the vendor selling the food.
It has become a staple food for the commuters, workers, students and schoolchildren, migrants and tourists who find themselves far from home when hunger hits at mealtimes, because it is cheap and sold in flexible quantities.
Anywhere you go, you will find street food as an interwoven part of the local economy.
The challenge
People want to know that the food they buy and eat is safe.
The challenge is therefore to improve the safety of street food by working with vendors.
Vendors contribute to the economy by buying their ingredients from local farmers and markets, so preserving the local culture.
