Street food on the coast of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: A study from the socioeconomic and food safety perspectives

Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector

“…The sector is dominated by women's enterprises, and studies in Zimbabwe and Senegal report levels of between 80% and 85% of female traders [98,166,167]. IFS enterprises have an important role in providing an income for poor women, and play a key role as food-energy support instruments in urban landscapes [168][169][170]. Existing studies on the IFS have focused on related geographical and socio-economic patterns [171,172], including the importance of location on enterprise performance [170], nutrition and food security [173,174], hygiene and contamination [175][176][177][178], and policy and regulatory environments [179,180].…”

Participatory mapping and food‐centred justice in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya

“…They do so by embedding data within a location, thus improving visualisation and aiding the decision-making process (Sieber, 2006). They do so by embedding data within a location, thus improving visualisation and aiding the decision-making process (Sieber, 2006).…”

“…By the late 1990s it had evolved into a tool to give voice to marginalised communities in the global South under the title participatory geographic information system (PGIS)a fusion of participatory learning and action (PLA) and GISalso called "community GIS/mapping" or "GIS-in-practice" (Corbett et al, 2006;Dunn, 2007;Forrester & Cinderby, 2005). Participatory geographic information system gave rise to a community of "grassroots GIS users and mappers," 2 promoting GIS and mapping practices to navigate local initiatives while addressing priorities that are important to the local community (Corbett et al, 2006;Elwood, 2006;Haklay & Francis, 2018;McCall et al, 2015;Rambaldi et al, 2006;Sieber, 2006;Verplanke et al, 2016). Participatory geographic information system aims to represent local people's spatial knowledge by geographical information productsmost commonly mapsthat are flexible, adaptive to different socio-cultural environments, and by supporting communication and community advocacy, keep them informed and inclusive (Verplanke et al, 2016, p. 2).…”

“…The use of geographic information systems (GIS) for data creation, analysis, and dissemination of information has become widespread in various disciplines because of their ability to bring more life to data. They do so by embedding data within a location, thus improving visualisation and aiding the decision-making process (Sieber, 2006). GIS proliferated in urban planning and management applications in the 1980s but was largely an elitist and positivist tool used for surveillance, control, and exercise of authority by a few (Cope & Elwood, 2009;Sieber, 2006).…”

“…Claims against food vendors in informal settlements are seldom grounded in evidence. Much scholarship on food vendors in cities of the global South focuses on central locations and official markets (Chukuezi, 2010;Muinde & Kuria, 2005;Muyanja et al, 2011;Omemu & Aderoju, 2008;da Silva et al, 2014). The challenges faced by food vendors in informal settlements to keep the food safe to eat in spaces characterised by multiple environmental hazards and inadequate basic infrastructure require further grounded exploration.…”