The economy of street food vendors provides not only affordable food for the urban poor people, but also generates opportunities of self-employment. However, success of these tiny units is dependent on various networks that create this economy. Therefore, economic outcomes from these entrepreneurial activities could be embedded with the social relations through networks. Through an ethnographic...

The focus of the study was to assess role Presidential Issued Identity Cards (PIDs) in alleviating street vendor’s business challenges Dar es Salaam. Specifically, aimed examine influence vending challenges, explore factors inhibiting utilization Vendors IDs cards vendors’ and identify nature (financial, social relation, special) problem that solved by establishment PIDs. conducted Salaam city,...

BACKGROUND The street-food industry lacks legal recognition, it operates in unstable and precarious conditions, involving women and men with minimal or no knowledge of hygienic food handling practices. Infective eggs, bacteria, toxins and cysts of faecal orally transmissible parasites are common agents responsible for food contamination in developing countries. OBJECTIVE To determine the inci...

The herbal vendors are the mobile tribal medicinement seen on the busy streets of many Indian cities selling crude medicinal plants and their products. They prescribe herbal treatment for several diseases, a skill they inherited from their forefathers through several generations of experience. They claim to have specific herbal remedies for the complete cure of some urino - genital disorders su...

heat stress is an important and serious threat at work and is a particular concern in outdoor occupational environments. this study aims at comparing heat stress and heat strain at different outdoor groups, examining the protective and adaptive actions which were done by workers and also provi services to them by government or employer to reduce heat load. this cross–sectional study was conduct...

Street vending is an important component of the informal economy a city. It forms major base livelihood for significant proportion urban poor. Embedded with conceptual, theoretical, and methodological realm anthropology right to city, this article assesses vendors’ striving subsistence livelihoods amidst increased rigidness local authorities towards them in Pokhara. Based on qualitative data co...