 The enabling environment for informal food traders in Nigeria’s secondary citiesDanielle Resnick (), Bhavna Sivasubramanian, Idiong Christopher Idiong, Michael Akindele Ojo and Likita Tanko No 59, NSSP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Abstract: Informal vendors are a critical source of food security for urban residents in African cities. However, the livelihoods of these traders and the governance constraints they encounter are not well-understood outside of the region’s capital and primate cities. This study focuses on two distinct secondary cities in Nigeria, Calabar in the South-South geopolitical zone of the country and Minna in the Middle Belt region. Local and state officials in each city were interviewed on the legal, institutional, and oversight functions they provide within the informal food sector. This was complemented with a survey of 1,097 traders across the two cities to assess their demographic characteristics, contributions to local food security, key challenges they face for profitability, engagement with government actors, and degree of access to services in the markets. Keywords: street vendors; street foods; informal sector; food policies; urban areas; capacity development; food safety; food security; towns; Nigeria; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Western Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fpr:nsspwp:59 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in NSSP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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